John 1:28

Verse

Ταῦτα ἐν Βηθανίᾳ ἐγένετο πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, ὅπου ἦν Ἰωάννης βαπτίζων.

RBT Greek Interlinear:

3778; Tauta; Ταῦτα; these ones; DPro-NNP

1722; en; ἐν; within; Prep

963; Bēthania; Βηθανίᾳ; Bethany; N-DFS

1096; egeneto; ἐγένετο; has become; V-AIM-3S

4008; peran; πέραν; beyond; Prep

3588; tou; τοῦ; the; Art-GMS

2446; Iordanou; Ἰορδάνου; Jordan; N-GMS

3699; hopou; ὅπου; where; Adv

1510; ēn; ἦν; was; V-IIA-3S

3588; ho; ὁ; the; Art-NMS

2491; Iōannēs; Ἰωάννης; Favored; N-NMS

907; baptizōn; βαπτίζων; he who is baptizing; V-PPA-NMS

RBT Translation:

Becoming In the House of Misery, Crossing the Jordan

These ones became in the House-of-Misery,⁴⁸ on the other side of the Descent,⁴⁹ where the Favored was, he who submerges.⁵⁰

The River Decent (Jordan).
House of Misery vs. House of Wisdom

LITV Translation:
These things took place in Bethabara beyond the Jordan, where was baptizing.

ESV Translation:
These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Footnotes

48

Strong’s #G963, Bethania. The name in Hebrew means House of Depression or Misery. We read about Jesus making a fig tree here with no fruit to wither (Matthew 21:18-22). No such place exists or has been found because it is an enigma, a parable. Brown-Driver-Briggs simply write, “It is most probable that Bethany disappeared after the Apostles’ time”.

49

Strong’s #2446 and #3383 Yarden, descent, descender. From the verb yarad (#3381).

50

“was submerging” is incorrect. Submerging here is in the participle form, i.e. a noun-verb, without tense. “Was” is the verb to be in the imperfect indicative active just as in verse 1, “In a head was being the word…”