Bethes'da

Bethes'da, POOL OF ('house of mercy' or 'house of the stream'), the scene of Christ's cure of the impotent man (St John, v. 2-9), the tank that was the resort of the 'impotent, blind, halt, and withered.' Since 1102 it has been identified with the Birket Israel, which is situated within the walls of Jerusalem, near the St Stephen's gate and the Temple of Omar. Conder, however, identifies it with the spring in the Kedron Valley called Gilon and En Rogel, which was diverted through a rock-cut tunnel to Siloam. But Schick in 1889 discovered the remains of the substructures of the pool near the church of St Anne.