Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Market
Pool
Bible References
Market
Nehemiah 3:1
And Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate. They hallowed it, and set up its doors; and they hallowed it even to the tower of Meah, to the tower of Hananeel.
Nehemiah 12:39
and from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the gate of the old wall, and above the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even to the sheep-gate; and they stood still in the prison-gate.
Pool
Isaiah 22:9
and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;