Bethesda Explained

Bethesda originally referred to the Pool of Bethesda, a pool in Jerusalem, described in the New Testament story of the healing the paralytic at Bethesda.

Bethesda may also refer to:

Places

Antigua and Barbuda

• Bethesda, Antigua and Barbuda

Canada

• Bethesda, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
• Bethesda, York Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada

South Africa

• Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa

Suriname

• Bethesda, Suriname, a former leper colony

United Kingdom

• Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales
  • Bethesda Athletic F.C.
  • Bethesda RFC, a rugby union team
• Bethesda, Pembrokeshire, Wales

United States

• Bethesda, Arkansas
• Bethesda, Chatham County, Georgia
• Bethesda, Greene County, Georgia
• Bethesda, Davidson County, North Carolina
• Bethesda, Durham County, North Carolina
• Bethesda, Iowa
• Bethesda, Maryland
  • Bethesda station, a Washington Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland
  • Bethesda Naval Hospital (now Walter Reed National Military Medical Center)
• Bethesda (Ellicott City, Maryland), a plantation house
• Bethesda, Ohio
• Bethesda, Pennsylvania
• Bethesda, Tennessee
• Bethesda, West Virginia
• Bethesda, Wisconsin
• Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, with the Angel of the Waters statue in New York City's Central Park
• Bethesda Academy, Savannah, Georgia

Other uses

• Bethesda system, a classification system for thyroid neoplasia, named after the town in Maryland
• Bethesda Softworks, a video games publishing company, named after the town in Maryland
  • Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks' in-house video game development company

See also

• • Bethesda Chapel (disambiguation)
• Bethesda Church (disambiguation)
• Bethesda Hospital (disambiguation)
• Bethsaida (disambiguation)