Matthew 21:17
Good News Translation
Jesus left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.

New Revised Standard Version
He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus left the city and went out to the village of Bethany, where he spent the night.

New American Bible
And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and there he spent the night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and remained here.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and remained here.

he left.

Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.

Jeremiah 6:8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

Hosea 9:12 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

Mark 3:7 But Jesus retired with his disciples to the sea; and a great multitude followed him from Galilee and Judea,

Luke 8:37,38 And all the multitude of the country of the Gerasens besought him to depart from them: for they were taken with great fear. And he, going up into the ship, returned back again. . . .

Bethany.

Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: He hath a devil.

) 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.

Mark 11:11,19 And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having viewed all things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went out to Bethania with the twelve. . . .

Luke 10:38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

John 11:1,18 Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and of Martha her sister. . . .

John 12:1-3 Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. . . .

Context
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
16And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise? 17And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania and remained here. 18And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:6
And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,

Mark 11:1
And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem and to Bethania, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,

Mark 11:11
And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple: and having viewed all things round about, when now the eventide was come, he went out to Bethania with the twelve.

Mark 11:19
And when evening was come, he went forth out of the city.

Mark 14:3
And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

Luke 19:29
And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethania, unto the mount called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

Luke 24:50
And he led them out as far as Bethania: and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.

John 11:1
Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and of Martha her sister.

John 11:18
(Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)

John 12:1
Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

Matthew 21:16
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