Mark 11 Mark 11:1–11 Christ rideth into Jerusalem in triumph, Mark 11:12–14 curseth a barren fig tree, Mark 11:15–19 drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.

Matthew saith nothing of Bethany, mentioned by Mark and Luke. It was the town of Lazarus, John 11:1. Some think that Bethany was rather a tract of the Mount of Olives than a town, and that Bethphage was a kind of suburbs to Jerusalem, at the remotest part of which Bethany began, but the town itself…

Matthew saith an ass and a colt. The other evangelists speak only of the colt. The heathens, by a light of nature showing them there was a reverence and honour due to the Divine Being, were wont, in the use they made of creatures for any Divine service, to use such as they had not before used for…

See Poole on “Matt. 21:3”, &c. All along the story of our Saviour’s life and actions we shall find certain indications of his Divine power and virtue: his knowing men’s thoughts, and declarations of such his knowledge to them: his certain prediction of future contingencies, being able to tell…

See Poole on “Matt. 21:8–9”. It appeareth by our Saviour sending for the colt, that this little rural triumph, and the acclamations attending it, were designed by him both to show the people: 1. That he was the King whom God had promised to set upon his holy hill of Zion; and; 2.

See Poole on “Matt. 21:12”, and following verses to Matt. 21:17, where having so largely spoken to this part of the history, considering also what Mark and Luke hath to complete the history, few words will be needful about it here.

See the notes on “Matt. 21:21”. It is I confess the opinion of many excellent interpreters, whom I reverence, that the main end of our Saviour’s cursing and blasting this fig tree, was to let his disciples see in a type what would be the consequent of a spiritual barrenness.

See Poole on “Matt. 21:22”. See Poole on “Matt. 6:14–15”. See Poole on “Matt. 7:7”, in which texts we before met with what we have in these verses, teaching us the necessity of faith and charity to those who would so pray as to find acceptance with God.

Our Lord went every night to Bethany, (two miles, or near as much), and returned in the morning to Jerusalem. Our Saviour walked and taught in the temple.

See Poole on “Matt. 21:24”, and following verses to Matt. 21:27, where are the same passages opened. A prophet here, Mark 11:32, signifieth, one extraordinarily inspired and sent of God to reveal his will, so as his baptism must needs be from heaven.