After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea, х eis (G1519) teen (G3588) Ioudaian (G2449) geen (G1093)] - not the province of Judea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, for the foregoing conversation was held in its capital. But the meaning is, that leaving the city He withdrew to the rural districts, and, it would appear, to some part of the valley-district of the Jordan northward.
And there he tarried with them, and baptized, х ebaptizen (G907)] or, as we should say, 'kept baptizing;' but only in the sense explained in John 4:2.