After visiting the temple mount, we made our way to Bethesda. Bethesda was the birthplace of Mary (Jesus' mother) as well as the site of the Pool of Bethesda where Jesus healed the man at the pool.
John 5: 2-3, 5, 8-9
"Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having 5 porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. . . And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty & eight years. . . Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, & walk. And immediately the man was made whole, & took up his bed, & walked: & on the same day was the sabbath."
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