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The place near Salim where John the Baptist baptized because there was much water there
Jordan ValleyAenon (Aramaic for "springs") was where John the Baptist continued baptizing after Jesus's own ministry began. John 3:23 explains the choice with quiet realism: "John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there." The need for "much water" indicates baptism by immersion — pools or springs deep enough to submerge adults. The location is debated, but Eusebius placed Aenon in the Beth-shean valley where a cluster of springs rises in the western Jordan plain. From this site John delivered his famous self-effacing testimony about Jesus: "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30).
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