As He approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His disciples,
We have here the same account of Christ's riding in some sort of triumph (such as it was) into Jerusalem which we had before in Matthew and Mark; let us therefore here only observe, I. Jesus Christ was forward and willing to suffer and die for us.
Commenting on Luke 19:28-40
Saying, go ye into the village over against you,.... What village this was, is not said by any of the evangelists; it seems to be either Bethany, or Nob; and rather the latter, since the village of Bethany was fifteen furlongs, or near two miles from Jerusalem, Joh 11:18 and therefore must have been passed by Christ; whereas the tract called Bethany, at the Mount...
CHRIST'S TRIUMPHANT ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM AND TEARS OVER IT. (Luke 19:28-44) Bethphage--"house of figs," a village which with Bethany lay along the further side of Mount Olivet, east of Jerusalem.