New American Standard Bible 2020

John 5:2-4

2Now in Jerusalem, by 1the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which 2in 3Hebrew is called 4Bethesda, having five 5porticoes.

3In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or 6paralyzed.7

Notes

1. John 5:2 Neh 3:1, 32; 12:39 ↩
2. John 5:2 John 19:13, 17, 20; 20:16; Acts 21:40; Rev 9:11; 16:16 ↩
3. John 5:2 I.e., Jewish Aramaic ↩
4. John 5:2 Some early mss Bethsaida or Bethzatha ↩
5. John 5:2 Or colonnades (with roofs) ↩
6. John 5:3 Or had shrunken limbs ↩
7. John 5:3 Late mss add the following as the remainder of v 3, and v 4: paralyzed, 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 stepped in after the stirring up of the water was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted ↩