Bethesda

(be-thez'da.) [Heb.,house of mercy.] (Script.) Apool at the sheep-gate of Jerusalem built round with porches for the accommodation of the sick who sought benefit from the healing virtues of the water, and upon one of whom Christ performed the healing miracle recorded by St. John (v. 2-9). It is now a dry basin or reservoir, 360 feet in length, outside the N. wall of the enclosure around the Temple Mount. [s. 91]