these things were transacted at Bethabara, near Jordan, where John used to baptize.

now there were six cisterns of stone plac'd there for the use of the Jews in their purifications, containing two or three firkins a-piece.

the neighbours therefore, and they who before had seen him begging, said, is not this he that used to sit begging?

this he said, not out of any concern for the poor; but because being purse-bearer he used to pilfer what was in bank.