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.

Bible References

Market

Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest arose with his brethren the priests, and they built the sheep-gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Meah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananeel.
Nehemiah 12:39
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, 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
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected the waters of the lower pool.