John 5:2
Good News Translation
Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.

New Revised Standard Version
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.

Contemporary English Version
In the city near the sheep gate was a pool with five porches, and its name in Hebrew was Bethzatha.

New American Bible
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

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Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.

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Nehemiah 3:1 Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests, and they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto the tower of Hananeel.

Nehemiah 12:39 And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the house of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.

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Isaiah 22:9,11 And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool, . . .

Bethesda.

120 paces long, and forty broad, and at least eight deep, but void of water. At its west end it discovers some old arches, now damned up. These some will have to be porches, in which sat that multitude of lame, halt, and blind. But it is not likely, for instead of five, there are but three.'

Context
The Pool of Bethesda
1After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliasib the high priest arose, and his brethren the priests, and they built the flock gate: they sanctified it, and set up the doors thereof, even unto the tower of a hundred cubits they sanctified it unto the tower of Hananeel.

Nehemiah 3:32
And within the chamber of the corner of the dock gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants built.

Nehemiah 12:39
And the two choirs of them that gave praise stood still at the house of God, and I and the half of the magistrates with me.

John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, of withered: waiting for the moving of the water.

John 7:21
Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder.

John 19:13
Now when Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.

John 19:17
And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.

John 20:16
Jesus saith to her: Mary. She turning, saith to him: Rabboni (which is to say, Master).

Acts 21:40
And when he had given him leave, Paul standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. And a great silence being made, he spoke unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying:

Revelation 9:11
A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

Revelation 16:16
And he shall gather them together into a place which in Hebrew is called Armagedon.

John 5:1
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