“These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing” (John 1:28). “Beyond Jordan” is the name of a region on the east side of the Jordan River (Greek Perea). According to Lehi’s prophecy, Bethabara was the name of the site of John’s baptizing. Bethabara appears on the Medeba Map at the natural fording place east of Jericho entering Perea. (The Medeba Map is a sixth-century mosaic map in Medeba, Jordan; it is the oldest known cartographic representation of the Holy Land in existence.) In Hebrew, Beth-abara or Beth-avara means “place of crossing.” At such an important juncture along a major east-west travel route, John could have taught souls coming from the regions of Judea, Perea, Galilee, Decapolis, and Phoenicia. “They came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan [Perea], to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him” (John 3:26). Just across the Jordan opposite Jericho is where the closing scenes of the ministries of the great prophets Moses and Elijah occurred—an appropriate location for the opening scenes of the ministries of the great Forerunner and the Messiah.