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Now some Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor a Prophet?"

"I baptize with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know. He is the one who comes after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie."

This all happened at Bethany on the other side of the Jordan where John was baptizing.

John 1:24-28


Check out all the significant things that happened to Jesus in Bethany. 


- His baptism - John 1:28
- He had dinner with Simon the Leper - Mark 14:3
- It was where he was annointed with expensive perfume - Mark 14:3
- Bethany was the hometown of Mary and Martha 
- Bethany was where he raised Lazarus from the dead - John 11
- Bethany was the town where he began his Triumphant Entry - Luke 19:19


So much! in a town two miles on the outskirts of Jerusalem.