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Bethesda

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Bethesda The name for the pool in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate where Jesus is recorded to have healed a paralysed man on a Sabbath (John 5: 9). The reading in some MSS of Bethesda is followed by AV and REB, but NRSV prefers Bethzatha, of other MSS, known as a northern extension of the city. The double pool has been excavated; there was also a subterranean bath nearby, which could have been in use for therapeutic purposes—so possibly John 5: 2–9 has fused two adjacent places into one.

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Bethesda

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Bethesda uninc. city (1990 pop. 62,936), Montgomery co., W central Md., an affluent residential and commercial suburb of Washington, D.C. The area was settled in the late 17th cent. and takes its name from the 1820 Bethesda Presbyterian Church. The National Institutes of Health (1939), the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Naval Hospital are there, along with many private research facilities.

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Bethesda

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Bethesda , pool in Jerusalem, perhaps the one discovered under the Crusaders' Church of St. Anne near St. Stephen's Gate in the northeast corner of the city. According to the Gospel of St. John, its healing properties, which made it the resort of the sick, were the result of an angel's visits.

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Bethesda

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Bethesda Gwyd. The town arose around a Welsh Nonconformist chapel built in 1820 that was named after the biblical pool of Bethesda, where Jesus healed the sick (John 5:1–10).

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Bethesda

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Bethesda in the bible (John 5:2–4), the name of a healing pool, perhaps representing Bethzatha, and understood to mean ‘house of grace’.

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Bethesda

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Bethesda, UK, USA All are named after the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, Israel, where Jesus healed a lame man as described in the Bible (John 5).

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Bethesda

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Bethesda. A pool at Jerusalem (Jn. 5: 2) believed to have possessed healing properties connected with a periodical disturbance of the water.

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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Bethesda." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Bethesda.html

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