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Location:

  • Jordan, Bethany
  • geo:31.837109,35.550301
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 30~ / unknown

Class:

  • Site of historic event
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=53533

Annotations

These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptising1. He [Jesus] went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there2.

See:

  1. John 1:28
  2. John 10:40
  3. E. Mills Watson , ed. Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Macon, GA, US: Mercer University Press, 2001, p. 99
  4. Charles Miller, S.M. , "Bethany Beyond the Jordan". CNEWA WORLD. Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA).(January–February 2002) 2015-http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=942&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=hq&pageno=2
  5. Mohammad Waheeb, Dr Abdelaziz Mahmod, Eyad Al-Masr, A unique Byzantine complex near the Jordan River in southern levant and a tentative interpretation, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (MAA) 2013

References

  1. John 1:28
  2. John 10:40


Relevant museums

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.


Nearby

Teleilat el Ghassul (6 km)

Neolithic site (type-site of the Ghassulian culture)


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