Matthew 21 · Verse 17

Matthew 21:17

And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Matthew 21:17, King James Version

Matthew 21:17 in other translations

BSBThen He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.
WEBHe left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
ASVAnd he left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
YLTAnd having left them, he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and did lodge there,
DARBYAnd leaving them he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and there he passed the night.
BBEAnd he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.
WebsterAnd he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany, and he lodged there.

What does Matthew 21:17 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 17. Bethany. Mt 21:1.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 And he left them (καταλιπων, finally leaving them) and went - into Bethany; and he lodged there - Bethany was a village about two miles distant from Jerusalem, by Mount Olivet, Joh 11:18; and it is remarkable that from this day till his death, which happened about six days after, he spent not one night in Jerusalem, but went every evening to Bethany, and returned to the city each morning. See Luk 21:37; Luk 22:39; Joh 8:1, Joh 8:2. They were about to murder the Lord of glory; and the true light, which they had rejected, is now departing from them. Lodged there - Not merely to avoid the snares laid for him by those bad men, but to take away all suspicion of his affecting the regal power. To the end of this verse is added by the Saxon, And taught them of the kingdom of God. This same reading is found in some MSS., Missals, and one copy of the Itala. It appears also in Wickliff, and my old folio English MS. Bible, and taugt hem of the kyngdom of God; and in two MS. copies of the Vulgate, in my possession: one, duodecimo, very fairly written, in 1300; the other a large folio, probably written in the 11th or 12th century, in which the words are, Ibique docebat eos de regno Dei. And There he taught them concerning the kingdom of God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 21:12-17

Christ found some of the courts of the temple turned into a market for cattle and things used in the sacrifices, and partly occupied by the money-changers. Our Lord drove them from the place, as he had done at his entering upon his ministry, Joh 2:13-17. His works testified of him more than the hosannas; and his healing in the temple was the fulfilling the promise, that the glory of the latter house should be…

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Matthew 21:17 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΚαὶKaiAndG2532
καταλιπὼνkatalipōnhaving leftG2641
αὐτοὺςautousthemG846
ἐξῆλθενexēlthenHe wentG1831
ἔξωexōout ofG1854
τῆςtēstheG3588
πόλεωςpoleōscityG4172
εἰςeistoG1519
ΒηθανίανBēthanianBethanyG963
καὶkaiandG2532
ηὐλίσθηēulisthēHe passed the nightG835
ἐκεῖ.ekeithere.G1563

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Cross references for Matthew 21:17

  • John 11:18

    Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

  • Mark 11:11

    And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

  • John 11:1

    Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

  • Luke 24:50

    And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

  • Matthew 16:4

    A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

  • Mark 11:19

    And when even was come, he went out of the city.

  • Luke 19:29

    And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

  • Mark 3:7

    But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,

  • Matthew 26:6

    Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

  • Luke 10:38

    Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

  • Luke 8:37-38

    Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again. Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,

  • John 12:1-3

    Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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

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Context

  • Matthew 21:16

    And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

  • Matthew 21:17

    And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

  • Matthew 21:18

    Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

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Matthew 21:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y dejándolos, se salió fuera de la ciudad, á Bethania; y posó allí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et les ayant laissés, il sortit de la ville et s’en alla à Béthanie; et il y passa la nuit.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und er verließ sie und ging hinaus, außerhalb der Stadt nach Bethanien, und übernachtete daselbst.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et relictis illis, abiit foras extra civitatem in Bethaniam: ibique mansit.