With one more descent you come to the river-bed. The river itself ... It is the country just north of John Baptist’s desert, on the east of Jordan. People call it to this hour the most beautiful ...

embracing the hardship of the desert or baptizing at the Jordan River – hence his name, John “the Baptist” (not related to this writer’s southern denomination). In the early verses of Mark ...

For 2,000 years, since Jesus descended into the waters of the Jordan River to be baptized by John the Baptist, the river has been a pilgrimage site for Christians from around the world.

Three popes have visited the site of Jesus’ baptism on the Jordanian banks of the Jordan River: John Paul II in 2000, Benedict XVI in 2009, and Francis in 2014.

The Jan. 10 inauguration of a vast church on the very spot where Jesus Christ was baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River was an event of significant symbolic importance, both ...

and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their ... turn away from sin when you’re as ugly as it. John the Baptist knew that God speaks most clearly through the ...

However, St. John the Baptist was known for attracting large crowds in Judea and around the Jordan River. When Jesus came to him to be baptized, St. John recognized him and stated ...

John the Baptist usually makes an encore just before ... and belongs to the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany. The River Jordan divides the painting. Crossing the Jordan spiritually is as ...

“John the Baptist with the Scribes and Pharisees ... we might surmise John has not yet unleashed on his interlocutors. The Jordan River and the Judean desert beyond can be seen behind John ...

NEW BEDFORD – The main portion of the iconic glass-stained window depicting Saint John the Baptist’s baptism in the Jordan river that adorned the former St. John the Baptist Church in New ...

on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic Church officially recognizes as the site where John the Baptist baptized Jesus. Parolin inaugurated ...