Bethany beyond the Jordan

Holy site · today Bethabara

Location: 31.8369, 35.5472 · Pleiades 697641

What this place is

  • Holy site — the reach of the Jordan five miles above the Dead Sea that the pilgrim of 333 recorded as the place of the Lord's baptism, with the hill of Elijah's ascent on the far bank

Who is recorded here

What happened here

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