John 1:28
Good News Translation
All this happened in Bethany on the east side of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.

New Revised Standard Version
This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was baptizing.

Contemporary English Version
John said this as he was baptizing east of the Jordan River in Bethany.

New American Bible
This happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

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These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Bethabara.

John 10:40 And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first. And there he abode.

Judges 7:24 And Gedeon sent messengers into all Mount Ephraim, saying: Come down to meet Madian, and take the waters before them to Bethbera and the Jordan. And all Ephraim shouted, and took the waters before them and the Jordan as far as Bethbera.

Bethbarah.

John 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

where.

John 3:23 And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

Context
The Mission of John the Baptist
27The same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me: the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose. 28These things were done in Bethania, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.…
Cross References
John 1:43
On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee: and he findeth Philip, And Jesus saith to him: follow me.

John 3:26
And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou gavest testimony: behold, he baptizeth and all men come to him.

John 10:40
And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first. And there he abode.

John 1:27
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