Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 1:12

12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem, from the mount called Oliver, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath-days journey.

About a mile or two, or such a space; as by Gods appointment was betwixt the Ark and the people, Iohn 3.4.

Marginal references: Which Bethany was a part of, as scituate towards the bottom of it, remoter from Ierusalem. Hence Luke 24.50. differs not from this place; from hence the rather our Lord Ascended, that he might receive his glory, nigh the place where he began his suffering; (in the garden where he endured his agony, and was betrayed) and in the view of Ierusalem, where he had been condemned and scorn'd.