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The Healing at Bethesda

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

Now there is in Jerusalem by (B)the sheep gate a pool, which is called (C)in [a]Hebrew [b]Bethesda, having five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [c][waiting for the moving of the waters;

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  1. John 5:2 Jewish Aramaic
  2. John 5:2 Some early mss Bethsaida, Bethzatha
  3. John 5:3 Early mss omit rest of v 3, and v 4

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