Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
Ver. 12. From the mount] Near unto which he had been apprehended, viz. at Bethany, and from whence he had thus triumphantly ascended up on high, leading captivity captive, &c., Ephesians 4:8, and making an open show of his conquered enemies as a public spectacle of scorn and derision, εδειγματισεν, Colossians 2:15. In which respect, how well might this mount Olivet have received that name of Nicatorium, a which Alexander the Great gave to a certain Mountain not far from Arbela, as a constant trophy of that famous victory that he there got over Darius, with whom he fought for the empire of the world.
a Νικατωριον προς. Strabo.