John 5:2

Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 these things was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

3In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered; waiting for the moving of the water.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 3:1Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests, and they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto the tower of Hananeel.

Nehemiah 12:39And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the house of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.

Isaiah 22:11And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.

John 19:17And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

John 20:16Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master).

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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