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Updated: May 22, 2025
The passages Matt. xxi. 1, Mark xi. 1, Luke xix. 29, do not plainly imply that Bethphage was a village, as Eusebius and St. See Robinson, Bibl. A deep melancholy appears, during these last days, to have filled the soul of Jesus, who was generally so joyous and serene.
The triumph of Bethphage that bold act of the provincials in celebrating at the very gates of Jerusalem the advent of their Messiah-King completed the exasperation of the Pharisees and the aristocracy of the temple. The immediate arrest of Jesus was resolved upon. A great idea of order and of conservative policy governed all their plans. The desire was to avoid a scene.
The Sovereign's need is a sovereign reason. What He requires He has a right to take. Well for us, brethren, if we yield as glad, as swift, and as unquestioning obedience to His claims upon us, and upon our possessions, as that poor peasant of Bethphage gave in the incident before us!
Bethlehem is not visible; but there is the tiny village of Bethphage, and the first roof of Bethany peeping over the ridge, and the Inn of the Good Samaritan in a red cut of the long serpentine road to Jericho.
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