Archeologists have uncovered elaborate paving and a water channel for a pool where Christian Scriptures say a blind man received his sight from Jesus.
Recent excavations in an Arab section of Jerusalem's Old City revealed an elaborately paved assembly area and water channel that fed the Siloam pool, used for ritual cleansings by Jews until Rome destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70, the Jerusalem Post reported on December 24.
The Talmud refers to the pool as the water source for libations during Sukkot, festivities known as Simhat Beit Hashoeva. The waters of the Siloam spring were used in purification ceremonies. As an observant Jew, Jesus would have stopped at the pool during his thrice yearly visits to Jerusalem's temple.
The Gospel of St. John says it was during one of those stops at the Siloam pool that Jesus put clay on a blind man's eyes and told him to wash it off in the spring-fed waters. When the man did so, he could see, the text says.
Parts of famed pool of Siloam found
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