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Bethphage
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Town mentioned in several passages of the New Testament (Matthew 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), in all of which it is brought into connection with Bethany, or the Mount of Olives. It was, therefore, on the road to Jericho, near Jerusalem, and outside of the wall. This is known also from Talmudical references, where it is given as the Sabbath distance limit (Neubauer, "G. T." p. 147). According to some passages of the Talmud, also, it would appear that Bethphage (Tos. Pes. ) was near, yet outside, Jerusalem 
, Soá¹ah 45a). Yet it is referred to as surrounded by a wall (Pes. 63b, 91a; Men. 78b), which description does not exactly correspond to any known locality in the immediate neighborhood of Jerusalem. The. exact location, however, has not been determined (see Buhl, "Geographie des Alten Palästina," p. 155).
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Bethphage'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/b/bethphage.html. 1901.
