베데스다(Bethesda) 는
Jerusalem 의 양문 근처의 연못이다.
이곳에는 가끔 천사가 와서 물을 움직이게 하는데 그 때 먼저 들어간 환자는 어떤 병에 걸렸든지 낫는다는 전설이 있었다.
이 때문에 그 주변에는 수많은 병자들이 누워 기다리고 있었다.
예수님은 이곳에 오셔서 38년동안 누워있던 병자를 고치셨다.
1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem .
2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda ”, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
5 A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”
7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.