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that is to say ye sheep poole, wherein the sheepe and other beastes were washed that were appointed for sacrifice. In Hebrue it is called Bethesda, (and corruptly Bethsaida) that is to say, the house of effusion because the raine waters ran into the same. It was situate betwene the gate of the valley and the temple. It was the largest and most principall poole or water of the whole cittie, hauing fiue porches, which king Salomon made for the ser∣uice
of the Temple. And this Iosephus calleth Salo∣mons lake or Poole. For in this poole the Nathe∣nims washed the oblations which they deliuered vnto the priests to be offered in the Temple. The Water heereof was moued at certeine times by the Aungell of the Lord, and who so after the stirring therof went first into the water, he was healed, whatsoeuer disease he had. And therefore there lay a great multitude of languishing people in the porches thereof, as blinde, lame, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water. Among which number Christ healed a man which had languished thirty and eight yeares.
Iohn. 5.
Sol. to. 8. cap. 5, 6.