Bethesda
be-thez'-da (Bethesda; Textus Receptus of the New Testament,
Jn 5:2 (probably beth chicda', "house of mercy"); other
forms occur as Bethzatha and Bethsaida):
1. The Conditions of the Narrative: Jn 5:2:
The only data we have is the statement in Jn 5:2-4: "Now
there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is
called in Hebrew Bethesda, hav...
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(house of mercy, or the flowing water), the Hebrew name of a
reservoir or tank, with five "porches," close upon the sheep-
gate or "market" in Jerusalem. Joh 5:2 The largest reservoir -
Birket Israil - 360 feet long, 120 feet wide and 80 feet deep,
within the walls of the city, close by St. Stephen's Gate, and
under the northeast wall of the Ha...
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house of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, "a swimming
bath")
with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market
(Neh. 3:1;
John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls
it "the
sheep-pool." It is also called "Bethsaida" and
"Beth-zatha"
(John 5:2, R.V. marg.). Under these "porches" or
colonnades were
usually a large number of i...
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("house of mercy".) A water reservoir, or swimming pool (as
John 5:2, kolumbeethra, means), with five porches, or
colonnades, close to the sheep gate (Nehemiah 3:1) in
Jerusalem. The porches accommodated those waiting for the
troubling of the waters. John 5:4, as to the angel troubling
the water, is omitted in the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus
man...
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Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] a pool, which
is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches....
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