Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

That Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist is as certain as anything historians know about Jesus. It is somewhat clouded, however, in our present texts by the fact that later followers of Jesus ...

Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the following reasons: baptism is for the forgiveness of sin, yet Jesus is God’s son and ...

Why was Jesus baptized by John in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea? Biblical geography was highlighted last week as Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state, consecrated a new church at the ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as ...

In some traditions, it celebrates the baptism of Jesus by St. John the Baptist in the River Jordan and in others the visit of the Three Magi to the Baby Jesus. In the Tampa Bay area, the St.