Pool of Bethesda
HOLY LAND'S PHOTOS COLLECTION
Church of the Annunciation - Nazareth
Jacob's Well
Church of the Nativity - Bethlehem
Church of the Sepulchre - Jerusalem
The Chapel of the Milk Grotto
Jesus's Tomb
Church of St. Peter - Galicantu
Lady of Lavang in Israel
Church of the Transfiguration
Church of the Visitation
Pool of Bethesda
Gethsemane Garden
Pool of Bethesda
Ancient remains of The Pool of Bethesda, Jerusalem.
According to the gospel of John, chapter 5:1-9, Jesus heeled a paralyzed man at this pool.
John 5:1-9 After this there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem, near the sheepgate, there is a bathing-pool with five porches, which was called in Hebrew, Bethzatha. In these porches there lay a crowd of people who were ill and blind and lame and whose limbs were withered [waiting expectantly for the moving of the water. For an angel of the Lord came down into the pool every now and then and disturbed the water; so the first person to go in after the disturbing of the water regained his health from any illness which had him in its grip]. There was a man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and since he knew that he had already been there for a long time, he said to him: "Do you want to be made well?" The sick man answered: "Sir, I have no one to hurry me into the pool when the water is disturbed; so, while I am on the way, someone gets down before me." Jesus said to him: "Get up! Lift your bed! and walk!" And the man was made well, and he lifted up his bed and walked.