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¶ After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now in Jerusalem there is a pool by the sheep gate, which in Hebrew is called, Bethesda, having five porches.

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

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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