BETHPHAGE: (Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29)

Near the village of Bethany on the road to Jericho. It was from here that Jesus instructed his disciple to find a colt tied on which no one ever sat.

House of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, i.e., 2,000 cubits. It has been identified with the modern Kefr-et-Tur.