21 MAY 1937, Page 20

THE POOL OF BETHESDA

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Your correspondent, Mr. J. Roberson Day, speaks of the reference to the pool of Siloam as being a misquotation, St. John, Chapter v, reading Bethesda.

I find that my Bible (Oxford University Press) refers the reader to Nehemiah, Chap. iii, verse x5; and the marginal note to this refers the reader to St. John, Chap. ix, 7—" Go wash in the pool of Siloam."

The verse in Nehemiah reads—" The wall of the pool of Siloah by the King's Garden."

I am not a Hebrew scholar, but it appears to me that the same pool is referred to. M. HERITAGE. Northview, Saltwood, Hythe, Kent.