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The Healing at the Pool

Later on, there was another[a] festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda[b] in Hebrew. It has five colonnades, and under these a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, or paralyzed—waiting for the movement of the water.[c]

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  1. John 5:1 Other mss. read the
  2. John 5:2 Other mss. read Bethzatha; still other mss. read Bethsaida
  3. John 5:3 Other mss. lack waiting for the movement of the water

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