SACRED PLACES - SATB
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THE POOL OF BETHESDA
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in
Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes. In these lay a multitude of
those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving
of the waters; for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into
the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up
of the water, stepped in was made
well from whatever disease with
which
he was afflicted.] A man was there who had been ill for
thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he
had already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, "Do you
wish to get well?" The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to
put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am
coming, another steps down b
efore me." Jesus said to him, "Get up,
pick
up your pallet and walk." Immediately the man became well, and
picked up his pallet and began to walk.
John 5:2-12 (NASB)*
* Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972,
1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
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