The Gospels have a lot to say about the Mount of Olives, which faced the east side of Jerusalem. In Zechariah 14, God would come there (relevant for Jesus’s return in Acts 1). This passage also informs Mark 13//Matt 24; also Mark 8:38 and 1 Thessalonians 3:13.
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