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Places of the Bible

Bethany

first named in John 1:28

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Bethany, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • John's Witness · 27 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The Revised Version in John 1:28 has this word instead of Bethabara, on the authority of the oldest manuscripts. It appears to have been the name of a place on the east of Jordan.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 1 verse

John
1:28

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.