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G964Βηθεσδά Bēthesdá — house of kindness

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John 5:2
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.

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Word
G964 Βηθεσδά · Bēthesdá (Greek)
house of kindness

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Topic
Bethesda
A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896) — every passage it gathers, quoted.

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Feature
John 5:4 — The angel who troubled the water at Bethesda
The explanation that an angel stirred the pool and healed the first one in is missing from the earliest manuscripts of John, and looks like a note explaining local belief that a copyist folded into the text.

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