Healing the paralytic at Bethesda
The Healing of a paralytic at Bethesda is one of the miraculous healings attributed to Jesus in the New Testament.
Christ healing the paralytic at Bethesda, by Palma il Giovane, 1592.
The Pool of Bethesda is referred to in John's Gospel in the Christian New Testament, in an account of Jesus healing a paralyzed man at a pool of water in Jerusalem, described as being near the Sheep Gate and surrounded by five covered colonnades or porticoes. It is also referred to as Bethzatha. It is now associated with the site of a pool in the current Muslim Quarter of the city, near the gate now called the Lions' Gate or St. Stephen's Gate and the Church of St. Anne, which was excavated in the late 19th century.
The ruins of the Byzantine Church, adjacent to the site of the Pool of Bethesda
Model of the pools during the Second Temple Period (Israel Museum)
The pool of Bethesda in 1911
The Pool of Bethesda painting by Robert Bateman (1877)