* he left.
# 16:4; Jer 6:8; Ho 9:12; Mr 3:7; Lu 8:37,38|
* Bethany.
Bethany was a village to the east of the mount of Olives, on
the road to Jericho; fifteen stadia, (Joh. 11:18) or nearly
two miles, as Jerome states, from Jerusalem. This village is
now small and poor, and the cultivation of the soil around it
is much neglected; but it is a pleasant, romantic spot, shaded
by the mount of Olives, and abounding in vines and long grass.
It consists of from thirty to forty dwellings inhabited by
about 600; Mohammedans, for whose use there is a neat little
mosque standing on an eminence. Here they shew the ruins of a
sort of castle as the house of Lazarus, and a grotto as his
tomb; and the house of Simon the leper, of Mary Magdalene and
of Martha, and the identical tree which our Lord cursed, are
among the monkish curiosities of the place.
# Mr 11:11,19; Lu 10:38; Joh 11:1,18; 12:1-3|
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