Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed — Jesus withdraws from Jerusalem and its hostile leadership, returning to the region of John the Baptist's ministry on the eastern side of the Jordan River. This retreat to the location of His own baptism and the site of John's prophetic ministry represents a return to the beginning and marks a transition in the narrative.

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