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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Interpretation
We are all by nature impotent folk in spiritual things, blind, halt, and withered; but full provision is made for our cure, if we attend to it. An angel went down, and troubled the water; and what disease soever it was, this water cured it, but only he that first stepped in had benefit.
Glossary
- Jerusalem Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jerusalem.
- Bethesda Place
- Biblical pool. Modern identification: Pool of Bethesda.
- Sheep Gate Place
- Biblical gate. Modern identification: Jerusalem.