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New Find in City of David Alters Pool of Siloam History

by Mackenzie Landi
New Find in City of David Alters Pool of Siloam History

In the Gospel of John, we read that Jesus healed a blind man:

“After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. ‘Go,’ he told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means ‘Sent’). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.” (John 9:6–7, NIV)

What we thought we knew

A year ago, we were surprised to hear that the place we thought was the Pool of Siloam for the past ten years is not exactly what we assumed, because excavations carried out there overturned previous understandings. We wrote about that discovery in a previous article.

Recently, further discoveries at the same site have once again turned everything upside-down.

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