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Bethesda

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Named at John 5:2 as a pool in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, which is called in Hebrew “Bethesda”, having five porches. At 5:3–9 a great multitude of those who are sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed lies in them, and Jesus says to a man there who has been sick for thirty-eight years, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk”; immediately the man is made well, and takes up his mat and walks.

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JHN 5:1–18, engwebp
¹After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
²Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.
³In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
⁴for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
⁵A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
⁶When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”
⁷The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
⁸Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
⁹Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.
¹⁰So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
¹¹He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’ ”
¹²Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
¹³But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
¹⁴Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
¹⁵The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
¹⁶For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
¹⁸For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
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Pool of Bethesda
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.78139, 35.23583
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Narrated location (1) — At the pool of Bethesda: the man sick for thirty-eight years, made well on the Sabbath

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

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Entry: Bethesda (place-bethesda)
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Current wording: Named at John 5:2 as a pool in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, which is called in Hebrew “Bethesda”, having five porches. At 5:3–9 a great multitude of those who are sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed lies in them, and Jesus says to a man there who has been sick for thirty-eight years, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk”; immediately the man is made well, and takes up his mat and walks.
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