John 3:23
And Yochanan was also giving the tevilah near Shalem at Einayim, because there was plenty of water there for a mikveh, and the Yehudim were coming and submitting to the tevilah.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
24Yochanan had not yet been incarcerated in the beit hasohar (prison).
Cross References
Genesis 33:18And Ya'akov came shalem to Ir Shechem, which is in eretz Kena'an, when he came from Paddan-Aram; and encamped before the Ir.
Jeremiah 51:13O thou that dwellest upon mayim rabbim, 1 abundant in otzarot, 1 thine end is come, 1 and the cubit of thy being cut off. 1
Ezekiel 43:2And, hinei, the Kavod Elohei Yisroel came from the derech of the east; and His voice was like a kol mayim rabbim and ha'aretz was radiant with His Kavod.
Mark 1:4Yochanan came with a mikveh mayim in the midbar, preaching a tevilah of teshuva for the selichat avon.
Revelation 1:15And the feet of him were like burnished bronze as if in a furnace having been made to glow, and the kol (voice) of him as the sound of mayim rabbim (many waters). + 1:15 Dan 10:6; Ezek 1:7,24; 43:2; Isa 1:20; 49:2; Judg 5:31
Revelation 19:6And I heard, as it were, a sound of a great multitude and a sound like mayim rabbim (many waters) and a sound like mighty thunder saying, “Baruch Hashem! Because Hashem Eloheinu reigns, El Shaddai.
Matthew Henry on John 3:23-36
John's Testimony to Christ. 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison. 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest… Read the whole commentary →