John 5:2

Now there is at Jerusalem near the sheep-market a pool, called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porticos.

Thomas Haweis 1795 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 these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

3In these lay a vast multitude of infirm persons, blind, lame, withered, waiting the motion of the water.

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Cross References

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

John 20:16Jesus saith to her, Mary! Starting round, she said to him, Rabboni! that is, 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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