The term Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: בְּרֵכַת הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, Modern: Brekhat hashiloaḥ, Tiberian: Bərēḵaṯ hašŠiloḥ, Levantine Arabic: بِرْكَة سِلْوَان‎, romanized: Birka Silwān) refers to several rock-cut pools located southeast of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Jul 4, 2024 · In 2004, the stepped remains of the ancient Siloam Pool, long thought to be located elsewhere, were uncovered near the City of David. According to the Gospel of John, it was at this sacred Christian site that Jesus healed the blind man.

Until then, a much smaller pool 50 metres north-west, at the end of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, had been regarded as the Pool of Siloam. The account of the healing of the man who had been blind since birth (John 9:1-41) is one of the longest Gospel narratives of any of the miracles of Jesus.

Jan 12, 2023 · Finds like the Pool of Siloam in Israel, where the Gospel of John says Jesus miraculously restored sight to a blind man. Hezekiah’a Tunnel weaves its way underneath the City of David, connecting the Gihon Spring in the east to …

Feb 12, 2025 · For nearly two decades, archaeologists working in the City of David, near the Old City of Jerusalem, have worked on identifying the exact location of the ancient Pool of Siloam. New findings have shed light on a couple of possibilities. In John 9, we read of the miraculous healing of a blind man in the Pool of Siloam.

Sep 7, 2023 · The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation early this year announced that the Pool of Siloam, a biblical site cherished by...

The Pool of Siloam was located on the south side of the Lower City, the City of David in the Tyropoeon Valley. It was a man-made reservoir and the only permanent water source for the city of Jerusalem in this period, being fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring diverted through Hezekiah's Tunnel, built in the 8th century BC..

Jan 4, 2022 · The Pool of Siloam, also called the Pool of Shiloah (Isaiah 8:6), has a rich and storied history, which involves an ancient king of Judah, a famous sermon, and one of Christ’s great miracles.

Where is the original Pool of Siloam, the water pool that fed Jerusalem in the First Temple period? While the Roman-period Pool of Siloam—where Jesus cured the blind man—has recently been discovered, the earlier Pool of Siloam remains unknown.

Jan 15, 2024 · Mentioned in John 9 and rabbinic literature as a place of holy water, the Pool of Siloam was one of two pools used in the area of the City of David during the late Second Temple period (c. 200 BCE–70 CE), the other being known by the Roman historian Josephus as Solomon’s Pool.