I’ll tell you, this had to be something to see. The Jordan River is not a big river like many that we might think of. At its widest, you could still easily thrown a stone across it, and in many other places, you could just step from one side to the other. The wide and deeper spots usually became places where people would gather to fill their water jugs, wash clothes, bathe the children… or just escape from the heat and dryness of the land around the river. Most of the land was a wilderness; narrow paths leading through rocky hills and steep canyons, scattered scrub brush, and the occasional old tree whose roots had found some kind of moisture. There were snakes and scorpions and robbers, but the greatest threat was the land itself. In the wilderness, your body lost a quart of water an hou…