John Trapp on John 10:40

Verſe 40. And went again beyond Jordan] The further from Jeruſalem the ſafer. Jeruſalem was then, as Rome is now, the Saints ſlaughter-houſe. Roma radix omnium malorum.

Into the place where John firſt baptized] As well for his own comfort (for there he had heard at firſt from Heaven, This is my beloved Sonne, &c.) as for the peoples converſion and confirmation, who there called to minde Johns teſtimony of Jeſus, and beleeved.