Bethphage means “house of the unripe fig”. Its the the place from where disciples brought the donkey on which Jesus rode triumphantly into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29). Also the place where Jesus cursed a fig tree with leaves and no fruit (Mark 11:12). Today, there are two churches commemorating the incident, a Franciscan (catholic) church and a beautiful Greek Orthodox Church up a hill.
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