“Bethany beyond Jordan” (John 1:28), and a little later, “Aenon near Salim,” having crossed the river, and thus having arrived at a place west of it, with seven springs, a spot within easy reach of people of four provinces: Galilee, Samaria, Decapolis, and Perea (John 3:23). It is not surprising, therefore, that some of Christ’s earliest disciples who had evidently been baptized by John were living in Galilee (John 1:35–42). Confessing their sins they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River.