Here Jesus Healed the Paralyzed Man: The Pool of Bethesda and the Church of Saint Anne, Jerusalem
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The Pool of Bethesda is a pool of water located in today’s Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem that you will visit during your Christian tour to the Holy Land, on the path of the Beth Zeta Valley, and it is celebrated as the place Jesus performed one of his most famous miracles, the healing of the paralytic at the Bethesda Pool (John 5:2-9).
The Gospel of John describes such a pool in Jerusalem, while the actual location and pool is argued among scholars, the Bethesda Pool was discovered in the 19th century fitting the description in John’s Gospel, and also recently the Pool of Siloam was discovered in 2005. This second pool is also mentioned in the Gospel of John, and is where Jesus healed the blind man. The Siloam Pool has been accurately identified as a mikveh, or ritual pool, and it appears by most scholars that the Bethesda Pool was also a mikveh.
The name of the pool in Hebrew language, beth hesda, means either house of mercy or house of grace however the word could also mean ‘shame, disgrace’ due to a double meaning in the Hebrew language. This dual meaning may have been given intentionally since the location was seen both as a place of disgrace due to invalids and sick being in the site, and a place of grace, because of miracles and healing. The Pool of Bethesda has been an area of controversy, and according to the Gospel of John, Bethesda was a swimming bath with five porticos, which many believed was only a literary creation, however the archaeological discovery proved beyond doubt that the description of the Gospel was not a creation, and instead an accurate description of the location near the Sheep Gate, and details of the five porticos pool, with rushing water. All the details uncovered of the pool were corroborated through literary and archaeological evidence affirming the historical accuracy of the Gospel of John.
John the Apostle describes the porticos as a place that large groups of infirm people came for cures. The biblical Gospel continues by describing a Shabbat visit to the pool by Jesus, this is when he heals a bedridden man who could not make it into the pool in time while the water stirred up, so Jesus instead cures him immediately, and he is able to get up and walk. Jesus demonstrates that it is not the pool or the stirring water that heals, instead in is Jesus himself who heals.
The Gospel story of Jesus in Bethesda also describes how many people made pilgrimages to the healing pools. It was believed that the first person whom entered the waters when the water stirred would be healed, and the man whom Jesus healed would never make it in to the waters in time. This is when Jesus immediately heals the man. The story also gives in insight that the pools had a long history of healing, including after with Roman medicinal baths constructed centuries after the miracle of Jesus. After when Christians governed Jerusalem during the Byzantine era, St. Anne Church was constructed to commemorate the site of the miracle, which now covers the Bethesda Pool complex.
The site of Bethesda Pool is also believed to be the location of the grotto where Saint Mary mother of Jesus was born. You’ll visit this special place on day 7 of our Holy Land Christian tour in Jerusalem.
John 5:1-15
New King James Version
A Man Healed at the Pool of Bethesda
Shalom,greetings from England
The comments are right, no one is out of tune when they are singing to Adonai! This is the
voice God gave you, use it to praise him as you do. Thank you for showing us places we could never see in our life time. May the Good Lord bless you and your family and keep you safe.
Dad always taught us to sing loud and with the heart in church; singing to God is always beautiful.
Zahi.. your song was beautiful!!! I was wishing you would sing longer.. thankyou ❤
Thank you for everything you do. Your song was beautiful. Many blessings to you and your family.
Thank you so much Zahi! Wonderful video as always. ❤😊😊❤
Amen ⛪🕯️🙏
Thankyou brother, God bless you abundantly.
No one is out of tune when they sing about God. Adonei eloheinu, Adonai echad!!❤🙏🙏❤️
Thanks
I so appreciate your dedication to us who cannot come to the Holy Land and thus hire you as our one and only guide. Stay safe and may you and your family be safe. Praying for all who are innocents of this war.
Grateful thanks Zahi n keep up the good work. Love and prayers from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤❤❤
I want to come n sing in the sweet stop of momma Mary's church. Beautiful 😍 thank you. 😊❤
Such a special surprise! Thank you!!
Thank you Daniel. Thank you
Thank you Zahi. I kove the song and you singing it. God bless you. God bless Israel. 🙏❤️
One of so many Miracles by Our Lord at Pool of Bethesda🌟🙌🙏❤ Beautiful St.Anne Church✝️💐The Birthplace of Our Holy Mother Mary🌟🌹🌟🌹🌟and home of St Hannah and Joachim🙏🕯🕎❤
Beautiful singing Zahi💙🥰💙Oh Hear Israel🙏🇮🇱🙏Toda raba. God Bless You Zahi🙏🛐✝️💚💐💙🙏
GOOD MORNING ZAHI THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH AND THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS SHOWING US ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL PLACES AMEN 🕊🎂👵🏻👴👨🏫👵🏽🧓
Zahi, yes I feel the energy from The Navity🙌❤🙌
Your singing was beautiful. 🎶 ✝️
The place where Jesus did a miracle...amazing church!🪔🌿
Sing on ❤
Dear Daniel God is with you🙏✝️🙏I will pray for you🙏🛐🙏
Zahi the song was absolutely beautiful. Beautiful Church! Thank you for this inspiring video!😊⛪🙏
This was positively beautiful, especially at the end when you dedicate the Crucifix singing the Hebrew song. You have a beautiful voice and it made the tour that much more unique and special. Thank you.
Sing as your is content. The Good Lord hears and knows your intentions and innocence. Beautiful, Zahi. God bless you and keep you and family be always blessed and your hearts filled with happiness. Thank you, Zahi.
Thank you for showing us!
Thank you for singing שמע ישראל I was raised a Protestant preachers kid, grew up in a strict Lutheran school, went to catechism class, married a Baptist girl who was raised Dutch Reformed. I love traditions, iconography, and knowing what people hold important and why.
God bless you Zahi
Your you tube channel is fantastic!!! i'm from Verona italy. 23 years ago i was been in Holy Land. Wonderfull!!! paolo68vr
Always sing because Our Lord gave you your voice! Let Him hear you!
Thank you
Thank you for singing to us. It was beautiful Zahi! ❤️
You have a beautiful voice
Hello Zahi thank you for your dedication another wonderful video praying for you all 🙏🏼🕊
Zahi, you never stop amazing me. This video is beautiful!! Thank you for this wonderful surprise special gift. You don't know how much this means to me!! Thank you!! And God bless you and your family!!
Thank you for everything
Keep safe Zahi n thank you for another inspiring biblical video.
Loved the video! Loved your song! Thank you! ❤
Thank you
Loved this! What a beautiful church and the acoustics were great!! Singing was nice too :) ❤
Beautiful video, my friend. Praying for Israel and the people to stay protected from the enemies who want to harm. God bless you, Zahi
Thank you friend. Another great tour. Loved your Shema song too. 🎵 🤝🙏✝️💙🇮🇱🤍🕯 Vini
Beautiful video
Hi Zahir!! Sending hugs from USA
Is nice song Zahi !
Am Wube .
Good morning Zahi, my husband who is a protestant is not going to give you a hard time because while we were in the church of St Ann, my husband ventured down to the crypt and was rewarded by finding the place that marks where Mary was born. He went down for a quick look around as we were being called back together to continue our tour of Jerusalem. He was the only one from our tour to go down there.
The Bible does not give the location of Mary's birth, so you should be OK. I am not aware of any competing sight. My husband, a Protestant had no protest accepting it as the place. Thanks for another great video tour.
Lovely story, thank you
I think your singing was okay 🙂 Thank you for it.
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I don't know why exactly but I drew tears at the end of this one, my heart was pounding. Your voice singing? Mary? Jesus? I don't know. When I contact you for a cross soon it will be for Luma my sister in law. I will tell you about her then. This video really hit me hard & I am very still. Thank you again Zahi. God Bless you, 🙏❤ What an amazing place, Israel, so far from here.
Thank you very much
8:31 Do you see the 2 birds that fly together under the archway? Beautiful, and i think a sign. Then you see them both land together to for a little bit. If they didn't unearth this archway, no birds in are time would of been able to fly thru there like they did in Jesus time. Something to think about. Very beautiful. ✌️
I noticed it only now. Thank you
I'm a Catholic and would like to emphasize that while we use the traditional names Anna and Joachim or the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary we do not consider Protoevangelion of James, the piece of writing that those names first appear, in to be authoritative at all and it culminates with a truly bad and shocking scene that I will refrain from describing and that most people don't know about because it is quite simply too disturbing and frankly offensive or even sacrilegious to really get talked about. The protoevangelion of James is not a genuine history of the life of Mary but an ancient "Gospel harmony" (blending the story told in the canonical Gospels to make a single narrative) with added fictional details to fill in gaps in the story and to enhance its main claim that Mary remained a virgin. That's the obvious central purpose of the work. Both in ancient times, in the Middle Ages, and today, a very large portion of devout who actually have read this work to the end have rejected it, and it was placed on the Church's first list of forbidden books.
I need this land to be filled with Saint Jude this is Saint Anne. And the outside of my home must have a flood of Saint Jude. 💸 I need more money to come🤍
Being “in tune” is not important when singing to our God.
True. Thank you
By the way, I was wondering if you know Ronnie Cohen? He was our guide in 1994.
Yes, indeed
This is Saint Anne that picture needs to be removed from my home. And replaced with the cross of Jesus. Amen.👑 also my table must be enjoyed with my cake🍰