John 10:40

Plain English Version

Then Jesus left Jerusalem and went across the Jordan River to the place where John used to baptise people, and Jesus stayed there for a while.

Cross References

John 1:28

That all happened at a place called Bethany, on the east side of the Jordan River. John was baptising people there.

John 11:54

Jesus knew what they were thinking, so he stopped going to places where there were a lot of people. He left that country and went to a town called Ephraim, that was near the desert, and Jesus and his special workers stayed there.

John 11:7

Then Jesus said to his special workers, “Let’s go back to Judea country.”

John 3:26

Then they went to John and said, “Teacher, remember that man you talked about, the man that was with you on the other side of the Jordan River. Lots of people are going to him, and he is baptising them.”

John 7:1

Some time later, Jesus went around from place to place in Galilee country. He knew that the Jewish leaders in Judea country wanted to kill him, so he didn’t want to go south to Judea.