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Now in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a [a]pool, which is called in Hebrew (Jewish Aramaic) Bethesda, having five porticoes (alcoves, colonnades). In these porticoes lay a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [b][waiting for the stirring of the water; for an angel of the Lord went down into the pool at appointed seasons and stirred up the water; the first one to go in after the water was stirred was healed of his disease.]

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 In 1888, the location of this pool with its porticoes, as described in this verse, was uncovered.
  2. John 5:3 Early mss do not contain the remainder of v 3, nor v 4.

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