the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Green's Literal Translation
John 1:28
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This exchange between John and the Pharisees took place at a place called Bethany, east of Jordan Creek. It's where John did his baptizing.
These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things took place at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was giving baptism.
These things took place in Bethany, across the Jordan, where John was baptising.
These things were done in Bethabara [fn] beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
All this happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Bethabara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
This conversation took place at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordane, where Iohn was baptizing.
This was done at Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Ihon dyd baptyse.
these things were transacted at Bethabara, near Jordan, where John used to baptize.
These conversations took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing at the time.
These things occurred in Bethany across the Jordan [at the Jordan River crossing], where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
This took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These thinges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan where Iohn dyd baptyse.
These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing people.
These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.
John said this as he was baptizing east of the Jordan River in Bethany.
All this took place in Beit-Anyah, east of the Yarden, where Yochanan was immersing.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan, where Iohn did baptize.
These things happened in Bethany, at the Jordan crossing, where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Beit-Anyah beyond the Yarden, where Yochanan was immersing.
This happened in BethanyBethabara">[fn] on the other side[fn] of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.Judges 7:24; John 10:40;">[xr]
These things were done in Bethania, at the passage of the Jurdan, where Juchanon was baptizing.
These things occurred in Bethany, where John was baptizing.
This encounter took place in Bethany, an area east of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.
All this happened when John was baptizing in the town of Bethany. He was on the other side of the Jordan River.
These things were done in Bethany beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
All this happened at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing.
These things, in Bethany, came to pass, beyond the Jordan, where John was, immersing.
These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These thynges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordane, where Iohn dyd baptize.
These things all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan River. This is where John was baptizing people.
These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing people.
All this happened in Bethany on the east side of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.
These thingis weren don in Bethanye biyende Jordan, where Joon was baptisyng.
These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Bethabara: John 10:40, Judges 7:24, Bethbarah, John 12:5
where: John 3:23
Reciprocal: Joshua 22:11 - at the passage Mark 1:5 - baptized Luke 3:3 - the country Acts 1:22 - Beginning
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;
then God said, Let light be! And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good, and God separated between the light and darkness.
And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.
And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night; and to divide between the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let the birds multiply in the earth.
Bring out from you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth; and let them swarm on the earth, and bear, and multiply on the earth.
And God blessed Noah and his sons. And He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
And you, be fruitful and multiply. Swarm over the earth and multiply in it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
These things were done in Bethabara,.... That is, this testimony was bore by John; and this discourse passed between him and the Pharisees, at the place here mentioned; which was a passage over Jordan, where much people walked to go on the other side,
beyond Jordan; and where also John was baptizing; which brought a great concourse of people together: so that this witness was bore in a very public manner, and before a large number; and it is to this that Christ refers, in John 1:33 for this was so well known, that there was no hiding or denying it: the place where this conversation passed, is in the Vulgate Latin, and all the eastern versions; and in the Alexandrian copy, and many other copies, and so in Nonnus, called Bethany; but as De Dieu observes, Bethany was not beyond Jordan, nor in the wilderness of Judea, but near to Jerusalem, about two miles distant from it; nor was it situated by waters convenient for baptizing, unless they went to the brook Kidron, which indeed was not far from it; but it is clear from the history, that John was not so near Jerusalem; nor did that brook which might be forded over, continues the same learned author, seem fit and proper enough, `"mergendis baptizandorum corporibus", for plunging the bodies of those that were to be baptized'; wherefore he rightly concludes, that either this reading is an error, or there was another Bethany near Jordan: Bethabara signifies "the house of passage", and is thought to be the place where the Israelites passed over Jordan, to go into the land of Canaan, Joshua 3:16. And which, as it must be a very convenient place for the administration of baptism by immersion, used by John, so it was very significant of the use of this ordinance; which is, as it were, the passage, or entrance, into the Gospel church state; for persons ought first to be baptized, and then be admitted into a Gospel church, according to the example of the primitive Christians, Acts 2:41 but whether there was a place of this name, where the Israelites went over Jordan, is not certain; and if there was, it does not seem so likely to be the place here designed, since that was right over against Jericho; whereas this seems to be rather further off, and over against Galilee: there were several passages of Jordan, Judges 12:5. There was a bridge over it, between the lake of Samochon and Gennesaret, now called Jacob's bridge, where Jacob is supposed to have wrestled with the angel, and to have met with his brother Esau; and there was another over it at Chainmath, near Tiberias, and in other places: and it might be at one of these passages, by which they went over into Galilee, that John pitched upon to continue preaching and baptizing at; partly because of the number of people that went over, to whom he had the opportunity of preaching; and partly, for the sake of baptizing those who became proper subjects of that ordinance through his ministry. Some have thought, that this place is the same with Bethbarah, in Judges 7:24, which was either in the tribe of Ephraim or of Manasseh, and not far from the parts where this place must be, but was on this side Jordan; and so Beza says the words should be rendered; and those who came to John at Jordan, are not said to pass over that river: others are of opinion, that Bethabara is the same with Betharabah, Joshua 15:6, since this is called Bethabara by the Septuagint, in Joshua 18:22. However, be it what place soever, and wheresoever, it was no doubt very proper for John's purpose; and therefore he chose it, and for a while continued at it: and here, says Jerom a
"to this day many of the brethren, that is, of the number of believers, desiring there to be born again, are baptized in the vital stream;''
such veneration had they for the place where John first baptized: Origen says b, that in his time it was said, that Bethabara was showed by the banks of Jordan, where they report John baptized.
a De Locis Hebraicis, fol. 89. L. b Comment in Joannemo, Tom. 8. p. 131.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In Bethabara - Almost all the ancient manuscripts and versions, instead of “Bethabara” here, have “Bethany,” and this is doubtless the true reading. There was a Bethany about 2 miles east of Jerusalem, but there is said also to have been another in the tribe of Reuben, on the east side of the river Jordan, and in this place, probably, John was baptizing. It is about 12 miles above Jericho. The word “Bethabara” means “house or place of a ford.” The reading “Bethabara,” instead of “Bethany,” seems to have arisen from the conjecture of Origen, who found in his day no such place as “Bethany,” but saw a town called “Bethabara,” where John was said to have baptized, and therefore took the liberty of changing the former reading - Robinson, Lexicon.
Beyond Jordan - On the east side of the Jordan River.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 28. These things were done in Bethabara — It is very probable that the word Bethany should be inserted here, instead of Bethabara. This reading, in the judgment of the best critics, is the genuine one. The following are the authorities by which it is supported: ABCEGHLMSX, BV, of Matthai, upwards of a hundred others, Syriac, Armenian, Persic, Coptic, Slavonic, Vulgate, Saxon, and all the Itala, with some of the most eminent of the primitive fathers, before the time of Origen, who is supposed to have first changed the reading. Bethabara signifies literally the house of passage, and is thought to be the place where the Israelites passed the river Jordan under Joshua. There was a place called Bethany, about two miles from Jerusalem, at the foot of the mount of Olives. But there was another of the same name, beyond Jordan, in the tribe of Reuben. It was probably of this that the evangelist speaks; and Origen, not knowing of this second Bethany, altered the reading to Bethabara. See Rosenmuller.
