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Source language
Original Greek   
ἔστιν δὲ ἐν τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐπὶ τῇ προβατικῇ κολυμβήθρα ἡ ἐπιλεγομένη Ἑβραϊστὶ ⸀Βηθεσδά, πέντε στοὰς ἔχουσα·
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
estin de en tois Ierosolumois epi te probatike kolumbethra e epilegomene Ebraisti rBethesda, pente stoas ekhousa*

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
est autem Hierosolymis super Probatica piscina quae cognominatur hebraice Bethsaida quinque porticus habens

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Authorized (King James) Version   
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
New King James Version   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
21st Century King James Version   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
But there was a certain baptismal place in Jerusalem called in Aramaic, Bayth Khesda, and there were in it five porches.
Darby Bible Translation   
Now there is in Jerusalem, at the sheepgate, a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
God's Word   
Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called [Bethesda] in Hebrew. It had five porches.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.
International Standard Version   
Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,
NET Bible   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.
New American Standard Bible   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.
New International Version   
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
New Living Translation   
Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.
Webster's Bible Translation   
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, having five porches.
Weymouth New Testament   
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.' It has five arcades.
The World English Bible   
Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
EasyEnglish Bible   
There is a pool near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem. Its name in the Jewish language is Bethesda. Round the pool, there is a building with five places that have a roof over them.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,
New Life Version   
In Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches called Bethesda near the sheep gate.
Revised Geneva Translation   
And there is at Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, a pool called in Hebrew, ‘Bethesda’, having five porches.
The Voice Bible   
In Jerusalem they came upon a pool by the sheep gate surrounded by five covered porches. In Hebrew this place is called Bethesda. Crowds of people lined the area, lying around the porches. All of these people were disabled in some way; some were blind, lame, paralyzed, or plagued by diseases[; and they were waiting for the waters to move.
Living Bible   
Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was Bethesda Pool, with five covered platforms or porches surrounding it.
New Catholic Bible   
Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool that in Hebrew is called Bethesda. It has five porticos,
Legacy Standard Bible   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Now in Jerusalem there is a pool by the sheep gate, which in Hebrew is called, Bethesda, having five porches.
Christian Standard Bible   
By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
Now there is in Jerusalem a pool near the Sheep Gate. This pool in the Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches (alcoves, colonnades, doorways).
New Century Version   
In Jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches, which is called Bethesda in the Hebrew language. This pool is near the Sheep Gate.
The Message   
Soon another Feast came around and Jesus was back in Jerusalem. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there was a pool, in Hebrew called Bethesda, with five alcoves. Hundreds of sick people—blind, crippled, paralyzed—were in these alcoves. One man had been an invalid there for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him stretched out by the pool and knew how long he had been there, he said, “Do you want to get well?”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
Now in · Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, in Hebrew · called Bethesda, having five covered colonnades.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
New Matthew Bible   
And there is at Jerusalem, by the slaughterhouse, a pool called in the Hebrew tongue Bethseda, having five porches,
Good News Translation®   
Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.
Wycliffe Bible   
And in Jerusalem is a washing place, that in Hebrew is called Bethesda, and hath five porches. [Forsooth at Jerusalem is a standing water of beasts, that in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five little gates, or entries.]
New Testament for Everyone   
In Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which is called, in Hebrew, Bethesda. It has five porticoes,
Contemporary English Version   
In the city near the sheep gate was a pool with five porches, and its name in Hebrew was Bethzatha.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za′tha, which has five porticoes.
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
Some time later came one of the Jewish feast-days and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. There is in Jerusalem near the sheep-gate a pool surrounded by five arches, which has the Hebrew name of Bethzatha (the Pool of Bethesda). Under these arches a great many sick people were in the habit of lying; some of them were blind, some lame, and some had withered limbs. (They used to wait there for the “moving of the water”, for at certain times an angel used to come down into the pool and disturb the water, and then the first person who stepped into the water after the disturbance would be healed of whatever he was suffering from.) One particular man had been there ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there on his back—knowing that he had been like that for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well again?”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
Common English Bible © 2011   
In Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate in the north city wall is a pool with the Aramaic name Bethsaida. It had five covered porches,
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Now in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew (Jewish Aramaic) Bethesda, having five porticoes (alcoves, colonnades).
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
New American Standard Bible   
Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porticoes.
The Expanded Bible   
In Jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches, which is called Bethesda [C a pool of water north of the temple thought to have curative powers] in the Hebrew language [C referring to Aramaic, the native language of the Jews at the time]. This pool is near the Sheep Gate.
Tree of Life Version   
Now in Jerusalem there is a pool by the sheep gate, called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five porches.
Revised Standard Version   
Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za′tha, which has five porticoes.
New International Reader's Version   
In Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate is a pool. In the Aramaic language it is called Bethesda. It is surrounded by five rows of columns with a roof over them.
BRG Bible   
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Complete Jewish Bible   
In Yerushalayim, by the Sheep Gate, is a pool called in Aramaic, Beit-Zata,
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
In Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, there is a wide water hole. The Jews called this water hole Bethesda. It had five places with roofs for people to stand under.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Now there is in Yerushalayim at the Sha’ar HaTzon (Sheepgate) [NECHEMYAH 3:1,32; 12:39] a pool, the one being called in Aramaic, Beit-Zata, having chamasha colonnades.
Names of God Bible   
Near Sheep Gate in Jerusalem was a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It had five porches.
Modern English Version   
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porches.
Easy-to-Read Version   
In Jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches. In Aramaic it is called Bethzatha. This pool is near the Sheep Gate.
International Children’s Bible   
In Jerusalem there is a pool with five covered porches. In the Jewish language it is called Bethzatha. This pool is near the Sheep Gate.
Lexham English Bible   
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha, which has five porticoes.
New International Version - UK   
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate, there is a pool— the one being called Bethzatha in Hebrew, having five porticos.