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

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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.

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Footnotes

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

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

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Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

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And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

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One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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