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See Murphy-O’Connor, “What Really Happened at the Transfiguration?” BR 03:03.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians (London: Macmillan, 1908), p. 123.

Brown, Death of the Messiah, p. 153.

Henry Barclay Swete, The Gospel According to St. Mark (London: Macmillan, 1908), p. 342.

Louis-Hugues Vincent and Felix-Marie Abel, Jerusalem nouvelle (Paris: Gabalda, 1914), p. 305.

See Jerome Murphy-O’Connor “Pre-Constantinian Christian Jerusalem,” in Anthony O’Mahony, Göran Gunner, Kevork Hintlian, eds., The Christian Heritage in the Holy Land (London: Scorpian Cavandish, 1995), pp. 15–17.

See Sylvester Saller, Excavations at Bethany (1949–53) (Jerusalem: Franciscan Press, 1957).

See Joachim Jeremias, Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus—An Investigation into Economic and Social Conditions During the New Testament Period (London: SCM, 1969), p. 84. Jeremias bases his estimate on an average of 18,000 sacrificial lambs multiplied by an average of 10 at each meal (p. 83).

John Wilkinson, “Ancient Jerusalem—Its Water Supply and Population,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 106 (1974), p. 49.

Magen Broshi, “La population de l’ancienne Jérusalem,” Revue biblique 82 (1975), p. 13. He bases his estimate on the average number of inhabitants per acre, in contrast to Wilkinson (see next note), who bases his estimate on the city’s water supply.