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Origen selected en in John 1,28 as the superior reading in his Comm. Jo., an assessment challenged by modern critics. Although the text-critical data seem to indicate en Bethania as the preferable reading, this claim may be questioned on literary and redactional grounds. Those same observations provide evidence for intentional literary commemoration of John's ministry at the Jordan. Origen's gloss of Bethabara as House of Preparation (oikos kataskeues) leads to an examination of Mk 1,2-3, and its lexical divergence from LXX Mal 3,1.22-23 [=MT vv. 23-24]; Isa 40,3. Mark anomalously uses the verb kataskeuazo, the nominal counterpart of which (κατασκeυη) renders Heb.rabodah work, preparation (LXX AB Exod 35,24), which is graphically similar to rabodah. When combined with historical-geographical study of the area surrounding Jericho, these data allow us to trace the process of textual and traditional development whereby the toponym beit hrbh (Josh 15,6.61; 18,22), preserved at the modern ΗU. 'En el-Garabe, served as the toponymic antecedent of both Bethabarâ and Beth Barah (Judg 7,24). This process of development provides additional defense for the traditional localization of John's ministry in the southern Jordan River Valley near the el-Magtas and Hagla fords.
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