Bethesda

Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia

(house of mercy) (John 5:2) — a pool, or reservoir, located by the so-called Sheep Gate, with five covered walkways for the sick. Into it an Angel would from time to time descend and trouble the water, and the first sick person to enter the water after its troubling would be healed, whatever illness he was afflicted with.

Scripture cited

John 5:2

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