It is perhaps impossible, as we have said already, to decide with certainty which feast is meant, but we shall follow the more common opinion and hold that there is question of the Pasch. Thus, we hold that St. John mentions four Paschs as having occurred during our Lord’s public life: the first in ii. 13; the second here; the third in vi. 4; and the fourth and last in xii. 1 and xiii. 1, when our Lord was put to death. He passes over the events that occurred between the second and third Pasch, because they were already narrated by the Synoptic Evangelists. 2. Est autem Ierosolymis 2. Now there is at Jerusalem a probatica piscina, quae pond, _called_ Probatica, cognominatur hebraice which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, quinque porticus Bethsaida, having five habens. porches. 2. The best supported Greek reading would be rendered, “Now there is in Jerusalem _by the sheep‐gate_ (πύλη being understood) a pond which is called in Hebrew _Bethesda_,” &c. Bethesda, in Syro‐Chaldaic, which was the language of Palestine at this time, means the house (place) of mercy; and the name was given in the present instance on account of the merciful cures wrought there. For the building of this sheep‐gate by the priests, see 2 Esd. iii. 1. The site of either gate or pond cannot be determined with certainty; but the pond seems to have been close to the Temple, near the gate through which the sheep to be sacrificed entered within the outer enclosure of the temple. The *porches*, which served to shelter the sick from sun and rain, were open on the sides, but covered with a roof supported on pillars. The Vulgate reading, *a sheep‐pond*, has been variously explained. Some say the pond might be so called because the sheep were washed there before they were sacrificed; others, because their entrails were brought there to be washed. *Bethsaida*, read by the Vulgate, means the house (place) for fishing. 3. In his iacebat multitudo 3. In these lay a great magna languentium, caecorum, multitude of sick, of blind, claudorum, aridorum, of lame, of withered, waiting expectantium aquae motum. for the moving of the water. 4. Angelus autem Domini 4. And an Angel of the Lord descendebat secundum tempus in descended at certain times piscinam: et movebatur aqua. into the pond; and the water Et qui prior descendisset in was moved. And he that went piscinam post motionem aquae, down first into the pond after sanus fiebat a quacumque the motion of the water, was detinebatur infirmitate. made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under.