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The Healing at the Pool

After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool[a] with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.[b] A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches—the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.

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  1. John 5:2 Near the Sheep Gate … a pool; or Near the Sheep Pool … a place.
  2. John 5:2 Bethzatha; some manuscripts have Bethesda.

The Healing at the Pool

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate(A) a pool, which in Aramaic(B) is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida