Bethany Beyond The Jordan and Dead Sea

December 23, 2022
003 - IMG_7983 Friday December 23, 2022 Day 12 of our Israel-Jordan tour - day 5 in Jordan. We were on our way to Bethany Beyond the Jordan...
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059 - IMG_7980 At -1202 ft (-311 m) below sea level, about 1 mile away from the Baptismal Site of Jesus...
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004 - IMG_7984 Bethany Beyond the Jordan is by the 1944 treaty line with Israel, north of Dead Sea. From the Moevenpick Resort & Spa at Dead Sea, it is about 25 minutes for...
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005 - IMG_7985 The Baptism Site
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006 - IMG_7986 The Churches of St. John the Baptist in view...
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008 - P1200758 Bethany beyond the Jordan is of immense religious significance to the majority of denominations of Christian faith, who have accepted this site as the location...
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015 - P1200761 St. Karabet’s Armenian Orthdox Church on the right, across the Jordan River in Israel,
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012 - P1200760 More than a few churches are located across the border between Jordan and israel...
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014 - IMG_1895 Arrived Bethany Beyond the Jordan...
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016 - IMG_1896 The cat stops for us to take a picture... A bit scary if one runs into it at night without moonlight...
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017 - IMG_1898 Al-Maghtas (Arabic, meaning
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019 - IMG_1899 The place has also been referred to as Bethabara in Hebrew and historically Bethany (Beyond the Jordan).
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024 - P1200766 In the millennium year 2000, John Paul II was the first pope to visit the site.
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027 - IMG_1903 Pope John Paul II's two successors, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, also visited the site, as have a number of heads of state and other dignitaries.
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029 - IMG_1904 In 2002, Christians commemorated the baptism of Christ at the site for the first time since its rediscovery. Since then, thousands of Christian pilgrims from...
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