Baptism of Jesus -- rival claims

Carlton Winbery winberyc at speedgate.net
Sun Feb 27 19:52:14 EST 2000


Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote;

I have no idea where such a verse is found, but some have some have
identified SALIM in Jn 3:23 with a site east of the Jordan in the vicinity
of wadi Harar.
Some have also identified it with an area close to the head of the wadi Faria.

>Furthermore, on the opposite bank of
>               the Jordan from Qasr al-Yahud, the Jordanians
>               have been developing their own sacred baptism
>               site. At a place known as Wadi Harar,
>               approximately two kilometers east of the river, the
>               remnants of an ancient church have been found.
>               Jordanian tourism officials based themselves on a
>               verse from the New Testament: "All this happened
>               at the home of a poor woman on the other side of
>               the Jordan, at the place where John the Baptist
>               was." According to this verse, John the Baptist
>               was east of the Jordan, and the Jordanian tourism
>               minister managed to convince the pope to visit
>               there.
>
>Anybody have a notion what verse the Jordanians are relying on?


Dr. Carlton L. Winbery
Foggleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
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