Five Porticoes at Bethesda

Life and the Witnesses · John 5

Story guide: The apostles gather at Solomon’s Portico as signs are done and more believers are added. People bring the sick from Jerusalem and surrounding towns, and they are healed.

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1After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2There is in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, having five porticoes.

3In these lay a multitude of the sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed.

4For an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Therefore, the first one to step in after the stirring of the water would become well from whatever disease afflicted him.

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