Pool of Siloam - Part One - Just Don't Skip Part Two!

This is the Pool of Siloam, as I visited it in 1994. It was incredibly important to the people of ancient Jerusalem as the source where they could get fresh water INSIDE the city walls. The water came from the fresh water spring of the Gihon Spring. Remember from my last post that Hezekiah had caused that an underground tunnel bring the fresh water to within the city, so that the people could withstand the seige of the Assyrian Army. That was roughly 700 years before Christ.

This map of the ancient Jerusalem is incredibly important to understand if we want to understand that the Walled Jerusalem we see today is in a position North of the ancient city. Many important Biblical events took place in the Old Jerusalem, where the temple was the furthest North. The temple mount has not changed, but the city has grown around it.

I love the Pool of Siloam especially as I remember a blind man who was healed. We read from John Chapter 9. "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
......"When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing."


I just always like to consider my own life, and what Jesus can heal for me, as I come to Him.