John 5:2-3

GOD’S WORD Translation

²Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It had five porches. ³Under these porches a large number of sick people—people who were blind, lame, or paralyzed—used to lie.^[a]

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Footnotes

5:3 Some manuscripts and translations add verses 3b–4: “They would wait for the water to move. People believed that at a certain time an angel from the Lord would go into the pool and stir up the water. The first person who would step into the water after it was stirred up would be cured from whatever disease he had.”