John 5:2-4

Good News Translation

²Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool^[a] with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.^[b] ³A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches—the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. ⁴^[c]

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Footnotes

John 5:2 Near the Sheep Gate … a pool; or Near the Sheep Pool … a place.
John 5:2 Bethzatha; some manuscripts have Bethesda.
John 5:4 Some manuscripts add verses 3b-4: They were waiting for the water to move, because every now and then an angel of the Lord went down into the pool and stirred up the water. The first sick person to go into the pool after the water was stirred up was healed from whatever disease he had.