Why would Jesus, who rode into Jerusalem like KING DAVID, leave to stay in Bethany overnight, I wondered?

Gospel of Matthew 21:

Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.

Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry.

Gospel of Matthew 21:17-18 NKJV

The road to and from Jerusalem goes something like this:

It descends east from the Temple, crosses the Kidron valley, past the Mount of Olives & Gethsemane [five furlongs], continues east through Bethphage [2000 cubits/1000 paces] to Bethany [a Sabbath Day's journey from Jerusalem].

I addressed the significant imagery of this journey of Jesus in an earlier SERIES

Roger @ Talk of JESUS .com

for it was not the season for figs – 8

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Captive Jerusalem!

A.D. 30 - 2024 C.E. - The Controversial Place of God

RETURN to JERUSALEM along the ancient hillside roads from Bethany on this day prior to the Passover Sacrifice with JESUS ‘of Nazareth’ observing several controversies.

Controversies BEFORE CHRIST!

Opposition to the Lord God goes back BEFORE DAVID – yes, even before Moses and Abraham.

AND opposition to the One Living God of Scripture continues even NOW in these last days of 2024 of the COMMON ERA!

JERUSALEM, THE LAW & GOD’S BREATHED-OUT WORD all remain at the center of every opposition of twisted Truth, false prophets and stiff-necked resistance to God’s grace.

No Son of Man would ever be so controversial to a sinful world than Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior!

Roger@TalkofJesus.com

And WHAT IF JESUS returned to JERUSALEM accompanied by LAZARUS, who the Lord had called out of the GRAVE in BETHANY?

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Considering Controversy on His return to Jerusalem

Gospel of Matthew 21:18 NKJV

Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry.

And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it,

“Let no fruit grow on you ever again.”

Is this curse on Jerusalem for 'Good' Friday's Cross? 
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or perhaps Anno Domini 70 when Rome will destroy it? 
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or even some last day soon in the Common Era of 2024?

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Immediately the fig tree withered away.

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To Be Continued…

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