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 Nieu-Bethesda ( Afrikaans for ''New Bethesda'') is a village in the Eastern Cape at the foot of the Sneeuberge, approximately north of Graaff Reinet. It was founded in 1875 as a church town, like many other Karoo villages, and attained municip ...

, South Africa

Suriname

* Bethesda, Suriname, a former leper colony

United Kingdom

* Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales **

Bethesda Athletic F.C. Bethesda Athletic F.C. (; ) is a football club based in the Welsh town of Bethesda, in northwest Wales. They play in the Ardal NW which is in the third tier of the Welsh football pyramid. History Predecessor clubs In 1919, a team known as Be ...

Bethesda RFC Bethesda Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Bethesda) is a Welsh rugby union team based in Bethesda, North Wales. Bethesda member of the Welsh Rugby Union The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; cy, Undeb Rygbi Cymru) is the Sports governing body, g ...

, 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 is an unincorporated community in southeastern Durham County, North Carolina, United States, on South Miami Boulevard, off U.S. Route 70. The community has two churches, two schools, and a ZIP code of 27703. It has mostly been annexed i ...

Bethesda, Iowa Bethesda is an unincorporated community in Douglas Township, Page County, Iowa, United States. Bethesda is located along county highways M63 and J20, north-northwest of Clarinda. History Bethesda's population was 54 in 1902, and 25 in 1925. ...

* Bethesda, Maryland ** Bethesda station, a Washington Metro station in Bethesda, Maryland **Bethesda Naval Hospital (now

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med, is a United States' tri-service military medi ...

) * Bethesda (Ellicott City, Maryland), a plantation house *

Bethesda, Ohio Bethesda () is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,256 at the 2010 census. History Bethesda has had three names: Burrs Mills, Fairmount, ...

Bethesda, Pennsylvania Bethesda is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. History A post office called Bethesda was established in 1857, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. The community was named aft ...

Bethesda, Tennessee Bethesda, Tennessee is an unincorporated community in rural southeastern Williamson County, Tennessee. History According to a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources, conducted by staff of the Tennessee Historical Commission:Bethesda ...

* Bethesda, West Virginia *

Bethesda, Wisconsin Bethesda is an unincorporated community in the town of Genesee, Waukesha County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It ...

* Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, with the ''Angel of the Waters'' statue in New York City's Central Park *

Bethesda Academy Bethesda Academy (previously known as Bethesda Home for Boys) is a boys' school and former orphanage located in unincorporated Chatham County, Georgia, in the United States, near Savannah. Its historic building was listed on the National Regist ...

, Savannah, Georgia

Other uses

Bethesda system The Bethesda system (TBS), officially called The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology, is a system for reporting cervical or vaginal cytologic diagnoses, used for reporting Pap smear results. It was introduced in 1988 and revised in 1 ...

, a classification system for cervical neoplasia, named after the town in Maryland *

Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland. The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited, and in 1999 became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media. In its ...

, a video games publishing company, named after the town in Maryland ** Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks' in-house video game development company