I had the privilege of doing my own audio book with Audible for the Lightning Fast Field Guide to the Bible,

and it is different than the print book. They had me just wing it and fill in a whole bunch of other stuff.

They were like, hey, this won't work in an audiobook for me. You got to turn it into like an actual paragraph book.

And I was like, without a script. And they were like an actual paragraph book. And I was like,

without a script. And I was like, you think we can make it good? And they were like, I think we can make it good. And I was like, all right, let's do it. And we did it. And I thought it turned out great. Am I allowed to tell you that that's what happened? I don't know. I just did. At any rate, There's an audio book if you're into that kind of thing.

You get it on an audible or Spotify or wherever you get that sort of thing.

And now, let's just go do like what we

normally do, a podcast episode. Here we go.

Music Hello, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and today we're working on a missing location mystery. We're in John chapter one and we're trying to make sense of where this Bethany beyond the Jordan place would be. I mean, it's kind of a big

deal because Jesus got baptized there. I would like to go to where Jesus got baptized. I would like to

picture the scene here in John chapter one.

I mean, the whole Trinity was on site. I would love to go stand in the place or put my feet

in the water at the place where God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit were all present

and visible together in front of a whole.

Like that, that would be very exciting to me.

But like so many things from the ancient world that are only famous for one thing and

that fame was kind of short-lived, like it just the era didn't last that long.

A lot of these places, we lose

track of where exactly that was. But when you do deep dive into how history affects locations

and location memory, you start to realize pretty quickly, oh, yeah, I see how we could lose

a place here and there. And Bethany, beyond the Jordan, I would count as a lost place because we don't know for sure. Now, it's possible that one of the handful of locations that people still speculate that is the correct location for Bethany Beyond the Jordan today is possible. We got the right place. I would bet that one of these places is correct. But today, I want to take a little bit of time

and think about what the case is for all of them and how we know. Here's the verse we're dealing with.

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