Bible Location
Meaning: house of my month · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Bethphage was the village on the Mount of Olives associated with Jesus' approach to Jerusalem. It is important because it belongs to the setting of the triumphal entry. First appears in Matt 21:1.1
AI summary: Bethphage matters because it stands at the threshold of Jesus' final public approach to Jerusalem. The Gospels place the preparation for the colt there, making the village part of the prophetic and royal symbolism of the entry narrative. The cross references present Bethphage as an Olivet village tied to messianic approach and fulfilled expectation.1
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. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.