Village on the Mount of Olives between Jerusalem and Bethany, on the eastern road that descended from the Mount toward the city. Bethphage is significant in the NT as the staging-point for the Lord Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on the first day of Passion Week (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:29-44). And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass (Matthew 21:1-5, citing Zechariah 9:9). The disciples obtained the colt; spread their garments upon it; Jesus rode into Jerusalem on it; the multitudes spread their garments and palm branches in the way and cried Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest (Matthew 21:9). The patriarchal-Reformed reader receives Bethphage as the deliberate staging-point of the Triumphal Entry — the prophetic-fulfilling moment when Christ presented Himself as the meek King fulfilling Zechariah 9:9, anticipating both the public acclaim of Palm Sunday and the public rejection of Good Friday five days later.