Aenon

Aenon (Aramaic for "springs") was where John the Baptist continued baptizing after Jesus's own ministry began. John 3:23 explains the choice with quiet realism: "John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there." The need for "much water" indicates baptism by immersion — pools or springs deep enough to submerge adults. The location is debated, but Eusebius placed Aenon in the Beth-shean valley where a cluster of springs rises in the western Jordan plain. From this site John delivered his famous self-effacing testimony about Jesus: "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30).