Rebuilding the Walls

Eliashib the high priest(A) and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate.(B) They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel,(C) they dedicated it.

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Builders of the Wall

Eliashib(A) the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt(B) the Sheep Gate.(C) They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the Tower of Hananel.(D)

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Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

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By the Sheep Gate(A) in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda[a] in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 Other mss read Bethzatha; other mss read Bethsaida
  2. John 5:2 Rows of columns supporting a roof

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate(A) a pool, which in Aramaic(B) is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

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