These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
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