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MARK CHAPTER 11
Mar_11:1-11 Christ rideth into Jerusalem in triumph,
Mar_11:12-14 curseth a barren fig tree,
Mar_11:15-19 drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.
Mar_11:20-26 The cursed fig tree is dried up: Christ exhorteth
to faith in prayer, and to forgiveness of enemies,
Mar_11:27-33 and silences the priests and others, who called in
question his authority.
Matthew saith nothing of Bethany, mentioned by Mark and Luke. It was the town of Lazarus, Joh_11:1. Some think that Bethany was rather a tract of the Mount of Olives than a town, and that Bethphage was a kind of suburbs to Jerusalem, at the remotest part of which Bethany began, but the town itself called Bethany was fifteen furlongs, near two miles, from Jerusalem. It was the place from which Christ ascended to heaven, Luk_24:50, a sabbath day’s journey from Jerusalem, Act_1:12, at some distance from the town called Bethany. From this place, called still Bethany, upon the borders of Bethphage, he sent out two of his disciples.