Soon after Christmas, the newly installed patriarch Daimbert asked Godfrey and his army to meet Bohemond and Baldwin at the river Jordan, where Christ was baptised. They did so, bathed in the river, took their leave, and Bohemond and Baldwin made their way home via Tiberias, Banyas, Baalbek, Tortosa and Laodikeia. As there was little food, Baldwin hurried on to Edessa