John 5:2
Now there is in Yerushalayim at the Sha'ar HaTzon (Sheepgate) + 5:2 Neh 3:1,32; 12:39 a pool, the one being called in Aramaic, Beit-Zata, having chamasha colonnades.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3In these lay a multitude of invalids — ivrim (blind men), pisechim (lame persons), paralyzed. [
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:1Then Elyashiv the Kohen HaGadol rose up with his achim the Kohanim, and they rebuilt the Sheep Gate; they set it apart as kodesh, and set up the daletot of it; even unto the Migdal HaMe'ah they set it apart as kodesh, unto the Migdal Chanan'el.
Nehemiah 12:39And from above the Ephrayim Gate, and above the Old Gate, and above the Fish Gate, and the Migdal of Chanan'el, and the Migdal of the Hundred, even unto the Sheep Gate; and they stood still in the Prison Gate.
Isaiah 22:11Ye made also a mikveh (reservoir) between the two walls for the mayim of the Old Pool; but ye have not looked unto the Maker thereof, neither had respect unto her Yotzer from long ago. 1
John 19:17And carrying by himself HaEtz (The Tree), + 19:17 Gn 22:6; Dt 21:23 he went out to the place being called Mekom HaGulgolet (Place of the Skull), which is called in Aramaic Gulgolta.
John 20:16He says to her, Miryam. She turns and she says to him in Ivrit, Rabboni. (This means Mori [my 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 →