Christ dressed in a blue robe, stands in the centre with the Virgin Mary kneeling before him. The three women behind her are probably Martha, Mary and Mary Magdalene. They are outside the gate of Bethany, which is decorated with a metal statue of a naked boy holding a torch. On the left, the twelve apostles progress through the landscape towards Jerusalem.

This scene is probably based on the 'Meditations' of Pseudo-Bonaventura (a medieval devotional text orginally attributed to Saint Bonaventura), where there is an account of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene attempting to dissuade Christ from going to Jerusalem. It is rare to see this subject represented in fifteenth-century Netherlandish art.