Ritual Bath or Swimming Pool?

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Jesus spit on the ground, creating some mud with his saliva; he then applied the mud to the eyelids of a beggar who had been blind since birth and told him to bathe in the Pool of Siloam. When the blind man did so, he could see (John 9:1–11). A few years ago, the Pool of Siloam where this miracle occurred was discovered in a Jerusalem excavation.a Located at the southern end of the City of David (the oldest part of Jerusalem), near the outlet of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the Pool of Siloam is now a must-see on any trip […]

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Footnotes

Major Bible translations are often identified only by their initials, including the New American Standard Bible, the New Revised Standard Version, the New International Version, the New American Bible, the Contemporary English Version, the New Jewish Version and the King James Version.

Endnotes

Yoel Elitzur, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, forthcoming.

According to Elitzur, both Reich and Shukron and the BAR report have mis-measured the width of the pool. Reich and Shukron say it is about 162 feet (50 meters) and the BAR report says it is 225 feet. He is no doubt correct.