On the banks of the Jordan River where the ... The site on the Jordanian side of the river looks much like the New Testament describes it when John the Baptist came to live in the wilderness ...

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 ...

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 ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan has given a plot of land to the Episcopal Diocese ... according to tradition, Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist took place. In officially dedicating the two-and-a-half-acre ...