Immediately after Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem performed the rite of the blessing of water, the Jordan boiled up and began to flow back, just as happened after the baptism of Christ, the Zhizn (Life) daily reported.

Right after silver crosses were thrown into its calm waters after the prayer, the river boiled up. A maelstrom developed and the current flowed back for several minutes.

An ecstatic cry of five thousand people resounded over the Jewish desert. People refused to believe their own eyes, just as they did two thousand years ago when the Jordan turned its current after Jesus Christ entered its waters, the newspaper reported.

source: PreminPortal