The Jordanes (i.e. Jarden), a river of Palestine
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Iordanes names the Jordan River, a real geographic setting that carries strong biblical memory and fresh New Testament significance. In the Gospels, people go out to John in the Jordan region, confess sins, and receive a baptism connected with repentance.
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Iordanes names the Jordan River, a real geographic setting that carries strong biblical memory and fresh New Testament significance. In the Gospels, people go out to John in the Jordan region, confess sins, and receive a baptism connected with repentance.
The BSB source-word alignment has 15 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Jordan (15).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 3:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (6), Mark (4), John (3), Luke (2).
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Iordanes names the Jordan River, a real geographic setting that carries strong biblical memory and fresh New Testament significance. In the Gospels, people go out to John in the Jordan region, confess sins, and receive a baptism connected with repentance. Jesus comes from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John, not because He needs repentance, but because His public ministry begins in obedience and identification.
Mark also locates Jesus' baptism in the Jordan, while Luke names the whole region around it as the place where John preaches a baptism of repentance for forgiveness. John later notes Jesus returning beyond the Jordan to the place where John first baptized. Iordanes therefore helps readers see place, repentance, baptism, witness, and Jesus' mission converging in history.
Iordanes names the Jordan River in scenes of John the Baptist's ministry, confession, baptism, Jesus' public appearing, and later return to the place of earlier witness.
People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.
People from Jerusalem, Judea, and the Jordan region go out to John.
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
Those coming to John confess sins and are baptized in the Jordan River.
At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
Jesus comes from Galilee to the Jordan in order to be baptized by John.
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Mark also locates Jesus' baptism by John in the Jordan.
He went into all the region around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,
Luke summarizes John's ministry around the Jordan as preaching repentance for forgiveness.
Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.
John records Jesus returning across the Jordan to the place where John had first baptized.
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Greek word. the Jordanes (i.e. Jarden), a river of Palestine
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Hebrew roots and equivalents that share conceptual or etymological ground with this Greek word.
Iordanes matters because the Gospels do not present repentance, baptism, and witness as abstract ideas floating outside history. People go to the Jordan. They confess sins there. John baptizes there. Jesus comes there from Galilee and enters the public path that will lead through obedience, suffering, death, and resurrection. Luke explicitly ties the region to a baptism of repentance for forgiveness, while John later remembers Jesus returning beyond the Jordan to the place of John's early ministry.
The river does not save and should not be treated magically, but the location helps readers see how God works in real places through preached repentance and revealed identity. Iordanes teaches concrete attentiveness: where the passage locates the action, it often also clarifies the theological movement.
Matt.3.13
Iordanes is a proper place name. It should be handled as the Jordan River rather than as a symbolic term whose meaning can be detached from the Gospel geography.
The Jordan carries Old Testament memory of boundary, crossing, and covenant history. The Gospels place John and Jesus at the river in a new stage of redemptive history, so teachers should connect the memory carefully while letting the Gospel scenes govern the application.