Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
A Sabbath day' s journey - See the difficulties in this verse explained in the note on Luke 24:50 (note). A Sabbath day' s journey was seven furlongs and a half. Olivet was but five furlongs from Jerusalem; and Bethany was fifteen. The first region or tract of Mount Olivet, which was called Bethany, was distant from the city a Sabbath day' s journey, or seven furlongs and a half; and the same distance did that tract called Bethphage extend from the city. When, therefore; our Lord came to the place where these two tracts touched each other, he there ascended, which place was distant from Jerusalem a Sabbath day' s journey, as St. Luke here remarks. See the notes referred to above.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Exodus 16:29
Zechariah 14:4
Luke 24:50
Luke 24:51
John 21:14
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