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
And Eliashib the high priest riseth, and his brethren the priests, and they build the sheep-gate; they have sanctified it, and set up its doors, even unto the tower of Meah they have sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel;
Nehemiah 12:39
and from beyond the gate of Ephraim, and by the old-gate, and by the fish-gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, and unto the sheep-gate -- and they have stood at the prison-gate.

Pool

Isaiah 22:9
And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,