Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 11:1

1 A Nd when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage, and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples.

Matthew saith nothing of Bethany, mentioned by Mark and Luke. It was the Town of Lazarus, Iohn 11.1. Some think that Bethany was rather a Tract of the Mount of Olives, then a Town, and that Bethphage was a kind of Suburbs to Ierusalem, at the remotest part of which Bethany began, but the Town it self call'd Bethany, was fifteen Furlongs, near two Miles from Ierusalem. It was the place from which Christ Ascended to Heaven, Luke 24.50. A Sabbath Days Journey from Ierusalem, Acts 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.

Marginal references: Mat. 21.1. Luke 19, 29. [illegible: 1 letter]oh. 12.14.