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The pool with five porches in John's Gospel is called Bethesda. According to the Gospel of John, it was believed that an angel would occasionally stir up the waters, and the first person to enter the pool after this event would be healed.
Pool of Bethesda
The Antonia Fortress was overlooking the Temple Court, just north of it, not too far from Bethesda. Golgotha is located just outside the Sheep Gate (today the Lion's Gate), which also is very close to Bethesda. From the eastern base of Golgotha (closest to the gate) to the Antionia Fortress it would have been between 80 and 120 meters, depending on the exact place where the Antonia Fortress was. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. Joh 5,2
Bethesda
The healing of the man with an infirmity occurred at the pool in Bethesda.
There was a pool named Bethesda in Jerusalem which is the miracle pool mentioned in bible. The John chapter 5:1-10 describes the miracle done by Jesus to a man nearby the pool.
John 5:2 (NIV).
Jesus healed a man who had been unable to walk for 38 years at the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. This miracle is described in the Gospel of John, Chapter 5.
38 years at the pool watching bathers...is no different from David watching Bathsheba.
Jesus healed the lame man by the pool of Bethesda. John 5: 2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 5And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? 7The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. 8Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. 9And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
Archaeologists have found the five-sided pool of Bethesda, in Jerusalem. Since the first century BCE, it had been associated with the local temple of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. Evidence of its function is in a votive offering found near the pool, given to the temple by a woman who had been healed by Asclepius. Gentiles who needed healing powers would have gone to the pool. However, its location in Jerusalem suggests that even Jews, when all other avenues of cure had failed, would go to the pool and wait for the god to disturb the waters, providing a healing opportunity for one lucky person. The man said to have been cured by Jesus was a Jew.
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