* he left.
  16:4  Jer 6:8  Ho 9:12  Mr 3:7  Lu 8:37,38 
 * Bethany.
   Bethany was a village to the east of the mount of Olives, on
   the road to Jericho; fifteen stadia, (Joh. 11:18) 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.

  Mr 11:11,19  Lu 10:38  Joh 11:1,18  12:1-3