Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 19:29

"And it came to pass, when he drew nigh unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples," — Luke 19:29 (ASV)

When he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany.—On the general narrative, see Notes on Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1–11.

In details, we note the following:

1. that St. Luke unites the “Bethphage” of St. Matthew with the “Bethany” of St. Mark;
2. that, as a stranger to Judea, he speaks of the “mountain that was called the Mount of Olives.”

Possibly, indeed, both here and in Luke 21:37, as certainly in Acts 1:12, he uses the Greek equivalent for Olivet (the Latin Olivetum, or “place of Olives”) as a proper name.

The absence of the article before the Greek for “Olives,” and the accentuation of the words in many MSS., seem decisive in favour of this view.