Pool of Siloam, City of David, Jerusalem - Overview of the Archaeological Dig, July 2024

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The Pool of Siloam, where Jesus is said to have healed a blind man, will soon be opened to the public for the first time after approximately two thousand years.
The pool, located in the southern part of the City of David archaeological site in Jerusalem, is cherished by Christians and Jews.
It is currently being excavated by archaeologists and will either be opened to the public piece by piece or once the entire site is unearthed.
Plans to open up the Pool of Siloam were announced just before the new year by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation.
The site was built around 2,700 years ago as part of Jerusalem’s water system in the eighth century B.C. It served as a reservoir for the Gihon Spring from which water was diverted and stored in underground tunnels.
The reference about Jesus and the pool is mentioned in the New Testament’s John 9. It reads: “He told him, ‘Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam.’ So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.”
Traditionally, the Christian site of the Pool of Siloam was the pool and church that were built by the Byzantine empress Eudocia (c. 400-460 A.D.) to commemorate the miracle recounted in the New Testament. However, the exact location of the original pool as it existed during the time of Jesus remained a mystery until June 2004.
During construction work to repair a large water pipe south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, at the southern end of the ridge known as the City of David, archaeologists Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron identified two ancient stone steps. Further excavation revealed that they were part of a monumental pool from the Second Temple period, the period during which Jesus lived.
The structure Reich and Shukron discovered was 225 feet long, with corners that are slightly greater than ninety degrees, indicating a trapezoidal shape, with the widening end oriented toward Tyropoeon Valley.
What was the function of the Pool of Siloam during Jesus’ time?
Because the pool is fed by waters from the Gihon Spring, located in the Kidron Valley, the naturally flowing spring water would have qualified the pool for use as a mikveh, a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism to achieve ritual purity.
However, it could also have been an important source of fresh water for the inhabitants in that part of the city. One scholar has even suggested that it was a Roman-style swimming pool.
Whatever its original purpose, the Siloam Pool, where Jesus healed the blind man, is an important Christian site, and its discovery represents a watershed moment in the field of Biblical archaeology.

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Zahi, thank you for bringing us back to Ths Pool of Siloam to see the continuing excavations. So happy it began again. Such a Very important Biblical area enroute to the Temple Mount. Shalom dear friend and God bless you🙏✝️🕎⭐🇮🇱💚⭐🌺💐

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Thanks for the excellent tour of the Pool of Siloam, perhaps the largest Mikvah fed by the waters from the every flowing Gihon Spring. It is incredible that there is such a fresh water spring. It is at the pool that the blind man, the blind beggar, received his sight perfectly. But the way that he received it is also very unusual. John 9:6 says that the Lord spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed his eyes with clay. Verse 7 says that the Lord said to the blind man "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted, Sent). He went therefore and washed and came away seeing. So, there are two steps in this process of regaining his sight. One, the first step, is done by the Lord Jesus. He did not just speak a healing word or touch the blind man's eyes. Instead, he spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle and anointed his eyes with the clay. If you think about it, with the clay now completely covering both eyes, the blind man became even more blind. Completely covering the man's eyes with thick clay is like putting a think blindfold on the man. But the Lord then told the man to go and wash in the pool of Siloam. And he did. He obeyed the Lord's word. It is only after he went to the pool of Siloam and washed that he came away seeing. The man's going and washing indicates that he obeyed the life-giving word of the Lord. So he received sight. If he had not gone to wash off the clay after having been anointed with it, the clay would have blinded him even more. It is our obedience to the Lord's anointing that cleanses us and brings us spiritual sight.

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The progress since March 2023 is amazing. Fascinating that the pool seems to be cut off. I was wondering when I was there where were the other sides of the pool

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Thank you for the update.... I was wondering how the excavation was going... looks great... do they think where the steps are "cut" straight... that they were designed that way or destroyed that way?.... thx again

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✝️How wonderful to see where Yeshua walked! I wonder... where the (Bethzatha/Beit-Zata) Bethesda Pool is located? Where Jesus heals - John 5:2-9

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They have done a lot of excavation at Siloam 😮 I remember your videos when it was only the first steps.

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Do you think they will ever see water in the pool again?

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Lol i guessed right away was a mikva. Theres probably other ones for women... But in general it could be shared men go in the morning women at night.

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Children, I assume

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