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9o PICTURESQUE PALESTINE,
the houses, there can be no doubt as to the correctness of the identification of El Azariyeh
with Bethany, the village in which Jesus lodged before the last Passover, and in the
immediate vicinity of which He called Lazarus forth from the grave.
The Roman road from Jericho to Jerusalem, after leaving Bethany, winds round the
southern slope of the Mount of Olives, and, passing above Siloam, ascends the Kedron Valley
to the Garden of Gethsemane. Over this road Jesus must often have travelled with his
disciples, and there is one place, where the road is partly hewn out of the rock, which has
apparently undergone no change since the days of His earthly ministry.
It was by this road, too, that our Saviour made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an
MOSQUE AND CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, MOUNT OF OLIVES:
event which is so graphically described by the Dean of Westminster that we venture to
borrow his words : " Two vast streams of people met that day. The one poured out from the
city (John xii. 13) ; and as they came through the gardens whose clusters of palm-trees rose
on the south-eastern corner of Olivet, they cut down the long branches, as was their wont at
the Feast of Tabernacles, and moved upwards towards Bethany with loud shouts of welcome.
From Bethany streamed forth the crowds who had assembled there on the previous night, and
who came testifying to the great event at the sepulchre of Lazarus. In going towards
Jerusalem the road soon loses sight of Bethany. It is now a rough but still broad and well-
defined mountain track, winding over loose rock and stones, and here and there deeply exca-
vated ; a steep declivity below on the left, the sloping shoulder of Olivet above it on the right;
the houses, there can be no doubt as to the correctness of the identification of El Azariyeh
with Bethany, the village in which Jesus lodged before the last Passover, and in the
immediate vicinity of which He called Lazarus forth from the grave.
The Roman road from Jericho to Jerusalem, after leaving Bethany, winds round the
southern slope of the Mount of Olives, and, passing above Siloam, ascends the Kedron Valley
to the Garden of Gethsemane. Over this road Jesus must often have travelled with his
disciples, and there is one place, where the road is partly hewn out of the rock, which has
apparently undergone no change since the days of His earthly ministry.
It was by this road, too, that our Saviour made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an
MOSQUE AND CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, MOUNT OF OLIVES:
event which is so graphically described by the Dean of Westminster that we venture to
borrow his words : " Two vast streams of people met that day. The one poured out from the
city (John xii. 13) ; and as they came through the gardens whose clusters of palm-trees rose
on the south-eastern corner of Olivet, they cut down the long branches, as was their wont at
the Feast of Tabernacles, and moved upwards towards Bethany with loud shouts of welcome.
From Bethany streamed forth the crowds who had assembled there on the previous night, and
who came testifying to the great event at the sepulchre of Lazarus. In going towards
Jerusalem the road soon loses sight of Bethany. It is now a rough but still broad and well-
defined mountain track, winding over loose rock and stones, and here and there deeply exca-
vated ; a steep declivity below on the left, the sloping shoulder of Olivet above it on the right;