John 5:2

Now there is in Jerusalem, near the sheep-gate, a pool, called, in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, with five porches.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

In Context

1After this was the feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

3In these lay a great multitude of sick persons, blind, lame, withered, who waited for the moving of the water.

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Cross References

John 19:17And, bearing his cross, he went forth into a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called, in Hebrew, Golgotha,

John 20:16Jesus said to her: Mary. She turned, and said to him: Rabboni; which is, translated, Teacher.

Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17

The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →

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