The Jordan River and Yardane in Hebrew - I Need to Be Baptized

The Jordan River is important in the story of Israel in several key ways. Here we find Jesus at the Jordan. And I believe John the Baptist was living and camped up on the east side of the Jordan River, which is present day Jordan. So that means that everybody who came from Judea and Jerusalem had to cross the Jordan River,. get baptized, and then come back and re-enter the Promised Land.