Bethesda

Ancient pool in Jerusalem, to which intermittent powers of healing were ascribed; provided with five porches. Here a paralytic had waited 38 years, but was healed by Christ. Bethlehem. Town of Judæa, 6 m. s. of Jerusalem, birth IMG:content-0507.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0508.png:[graphic][merged small] place of David and of Christ. It contains the Church and Grotto of the Nativity, built by the Empre Helena 327.