Pool of Bethesda
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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 G
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)
Asclepieion
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An Asclepieion, plural Asclepieia, was a healing temple in ancient Greece that was dedicated to Asclepius, the first doctor-demigod in Greek mythology. Asclepius was said to have been such a skilled d
Pool of Bethesda
…area, in 1964, uncovered the remains of the Byzantine and Crusader churches, Hadrian's Temple of Asclepius and Serapis, the small healing pools of an Asclepeion, the second of the two large pools, and the dam between them. It was discovered that the Byzantine church had been built in the very heart of Hadrian's…
The Asklepieion on Kos
Patients sleeping in the temple of Aesculapius at Epidaurus by Ernest Board