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John 5:2 KJV
John · chapter 5 · verse 2
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.John 5:2 · King James Version
John 5:2 in context
1After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemhierosolymaJerusalem = " set ye double peace" , denotes either the city itself or the…G2414 →
- BethesdabēthesdaBethesda = " house of mercy" or " flowing water" , the name of a pool…G964 →
- calledepilegōto say besides, to surname, to choose for, to choose for one s selfG1951 →
- tonguehebraistiin HebrewG1447 →
- havingechōto haveG2192 →
- sheepprobatikospertaining to sheep, the sheep gateG4262 →
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This miraculous cure is not recorded by any other of the evangelists, who confine themselves mostly to the miracles wrought in Galilee, but John relates those wrought at Jerusalem. Concerning this observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16