Matthew 3:13 Jesus and the ministry of John the Baptist, is about 30 miles using modern Highway 71. Howard Clarke notes that according to tradition Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River five miles south of the Allenby Bridge, today the site of a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to John the Baptist. The area is currently in a military zone and is closed to visitors. This verse differs considerably from the description of the same event in . In Luke's account, Jesus is one of the crowd that has come to see John and it does not specify who baptized Jesus. Nor
St. John the Baptist Cathedral, San Juan the former largest church in the province. The first cathedral was built by the Society of Jesus in 1712. In 1944, an earthquake struck the province of St John. The Cathedral was one of many buildings damaged. A new cathedral was completed in the late 1970s St. John the Baptist Cathedral, San Juan The St. John the Baptist Cathedral () also called San Juan Cathedral It is the mother church of the city of San Juan, in the South American country of Argentina, which was dedicated to St John the Baptist. It is currently one of the most modern cathedrals