17And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
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Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)When Christ came into Jerusalem, he did not go up to the court or the palace, though he came in as a King, but into the temple ; for his kingdom is spiritual, and not of this world ; it is in holy things that he rules, in the temple of God that he exercises authority. Now, what did he do there? I. Thence he drove the buyers and sellers. Abuses must first be purged out, and the plants not of God’s…
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