A wonderful historical place with very beautiful and picturesque nature attracts pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. Many world celebrities were baptized here. Still - Yardenit is considered a symbolic place where John baptized Jesus Christ and where the Holy Spirit descended on the Savior in the form of a dove. The real place of baptism is located in the village of Vifara (now Qasr el-Yahud), which is now located on the territory of modern Jordan.
Yardenit is a diminutive of Yarden, which in Hebrew means Jordan or Jordan River. The waters of the Jordan have been considered sacred and purifying since the time of the Old Testament. The Scriptures indicated people were healed of leprosy and other skin diseases after bathing in the healing Jordan water. John the Baptist, and then Jesus, made immersion in the holy water of the Jordan a symbol of purification and acceptance of Christianity.
Later, Christians began to consider the water of the Jordan miraculous, they even began to drink it as healing.
Currently, everything is equipped for the convenience of tourists.
On the day of our visit, there were few people, we were able to calmly walk around the territory of the complex, take pictures, feed beavers or otters or nutrias - I don’t even know what kind of hungry creatures came out of the water at the sight of the bread that we were going to throw them.
Our rite of baptism was also, so to speak, symbolic. There was no great desire to go into the muddy water. Moreover, after Yardenit, we were expected to go kayaking along the Jordan - here we could not do without wet clothes and shoes. But more about that another time.
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Yardenit is a diminutive of Yarden, which in Hebrew means Jordan or Jordan River. The waters of the Jordan have been considered sacred and purifying since the time of the Old Testament. The Scriptures indicated people were healed of leprosy and other skin diseases after bathing in the healing Jordan water. John the Baptist, and then Jesus, made immersion in the holy water of the Jordan a symbol of purification and acceptance of Christianity.
Later, Christians began to consider the water of the Jordan miraculous, they even began to drink it as healing.
Currently, everything is equipped for the convenience of tourists.
On the day of our visit, there were few people, we were able to calmly walk around the territory of the complex, take pictures, feed beavers or otters or nutrias - I don’t even know what kind of hungry creatures came out of the water at the sight of the bread that we were going to throw them.
Our rite of baptism was also, so to speak, symbolic. There was no great desire to go into the muddy water. Moreover, after Yardenit, we were expected to go kayaking along the Jordan - here we could not do without wet clothes and shoes. But more about that another time.
Do you want to see with your own eyes?
Tours to Israel - Travel Agency "Hot Line", www. hot. com. ua +38(044)599-46-30, +38(050)346-4599, +38(067)462-9242
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