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 Harrison also the only parish in Hamilton County, Ohio that is west of the Great Miami River. St. John the Baptist Harrison St. John the Baptist Harrison is a Roman Catholic parish and school located in Harrison, Ohio which is west of Cincinnati, Ohio. There are 305 students in the school from preschool through eighth grade. The athletic nickname for the school is the Jaguars. The official colors are red and black. The parish is seen to be established in 1851. During the 1970s, the demographics of Harrison began to change dramatically with the completion of I-74 and the I-275 loop