One of the gates of Jerusalem mentioned by Nehemiah (3:1, 32; 12:39). It was in the eastern wall of the city.
Sheep Gate
Jerusalem had a Sheep Gate, and its story is mostly about people building it. Nehemiah opens his record of the wall with Eliashib the high priest and his brothers, who “builded the sheep gate” and “sanctified it, and set up the doors of it.” At the end of the same chapter, goldsmiths and merchants repair the wall “unto the sheep gate.” Nehemiah 12 names it again among the gates and towers. John places a pool called Bethesda, with five porches, “by the sheep market.” Read Nehemiah 3 to follow the whole circuit of the wall.
4 verses
Nehemiah
Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
Nehemiah 3:32
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
Nehemiah 12:39
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
John
John 5:2
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897