Bethesda

House of mercy or house of grace. Pool at Jerusalem, having five porches or cloisters. It seems to have had medicinal properties, popularly attributed to the “troubling” of the waters by an angel (John 5:4). There was possibly an intermittent spring flowing into the pool, which produced a bubbling at the surface. It was here that Jesus healed a man who had been an invalid for 38 years.