These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
John 1:28
PO John taps into Genesis here (Genesis 1:1) and His own epistle (1st John 1:1-2) when He introduces the incarnation of Yeshua of Nazareth as a means to unquestionably prove His pre-mortal existence with YAHAVAH. This beginning reference is to show that what became flesh was not from any sort of creative period prior and this is proven by the fact that John (verse 3) will write, “all things were made by Him.” The Word then, or the Greek logos, was and is in facts YAHAVAH proven by the latter part of this passage. (see also, Proverbs 8:22-23,30; John 17:5; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:17; 1st John 1:1-2; 5:7; R evelation 1:2; 19:13)