On my trip to the Holy Land last year we had an optional excursion to visit the Dead Sea, the place where John baptized Jesus and Jericho. Naturally I went on that excurion.
We went everywhere EXCEPT to the place where John baptized Jesus. It was at the Allenby-King Hussein Bridge and it was CLOSED by the Israelis that day. Who knew why. It was just closed. We could see the area from a distance but couldn't see anything untoward. Who knows.
Maybe I'll go back to the Holy Land one day. It's a MUST-SEE for ANY Christian though it's not so easy, maybe, for Protestants since almost ALL the landmarks of Jesus' life have a Catholic Church around them. Sometimes it's an Orthodox Catholic Church, but they are all Catholic.
It's understandable since the Protestants didn't come into being until the 16th century but it might be kind of unnerving to see all the "Catholic."
