Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Jesus goes out to Bethany in the evening

Saint Mark - Chapter 11


Jesus goes out to Bethany. J-J Tissot
[11] Et introivit Jerosolymam in templum : et circumspectis omnibus, cum jam vespera esset hora, exiit in Bethaniam cum duodecim.
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.

The day had been a very useful one for Jesus and, as the evangelist tells us, «he'd had looked round about upon all things», she had taken care for every one, he had put everything in order, making himself alight at providence for the poor and the terror to the sinful merchants.  But no that's the eventide had come and the Croat had acquitted of the temple, the lord, accompanied by the 12 apostles, who followed him at a distance down the slopes of the mount of olives, set forth on his return to Bethany.
After passing through one of the two gates of the temple on the north east side, they left the town by the sheep gate, then, going down the valley of Jehovah's of fact, they would reach at its lower extremity a spot fall of Tombs of some importance Hugh in the rock.
There are, at the base of the mount of olives, when gardens with caves took which Jesus often resorted with his disciples.  These gardens belonged to different owners, and in one of them was an ordeal press called the of seminary, belonging to one of the friends of our lord.
Crossing the bridge over the baroque care drawn, and generally dried up at that spot a road was reached, overshadowed by great pine trees full of doubts, and beneath the shade of which were shops, frequented by those who wished to buy a suitable offerings for temple.
After skirting along the gardens the travellers crossed the slopes of the mount of olives by a path leading also to the summit of the neighbouring mount scope for us, where titles established his camp when he besieged Jerusalem.

This same amount scope for us was reserved during the feast of pentecost as a resting-place for the people of Galilee, and it was on this account, no doubt, that Jesus chose this route, reaching Bethpage first, and going from thence to Bethania, which was on the right, about half an hour's walk further on.

It was by this route are also that the venerable David made his way to the desert weeping, with his head covered and his feet bare as he fled before his son Absent on, who had you serve but his throne.

















Path from Gethsemane to the Mt of the Ascension. J-J Tissot




Totus tuus ego sum 
Et omnia mea tua sunt;
Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam 

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