ISRAEL PHOTOS III -- A COLLECTION OF PHOTOS FROM ISRAELWITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES AND SITES PERTINENT TO THE STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY |
OVERLOOKING THE POOL OF SILOAM AT JERUSALEM
View of Siloam from the Mt. of Offense (Sept. 2003) Dark Blue Arrows
Pointing to Area of Ancient Pools Near Lower Center
John 9:11 (WEB) He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
The tunnel of Hezekiah discharged its water to the Byzantine Pool of Siloam. In 2005 the Herodian pool of Siloam was uncovered in the area indicated as the Lower Pool in the photo. It was where a blind man was healed after following Jesus' instructions. Directly below the arrow at the Pool of Siloam there was a cliff at the brow of a hill and the water from the pool flowed out of the pool past the lower pool where there was a garden of figs and pomegranates. Eventually the stream flowed into a city pipe under the street. The Kidron Valley was at the bottom of the photo above). Quarrying during Roman times changed the shape of the lower city; especially in the area to the right of Siloam. It was there that the quarrying exposed some tombs thought to be the tombs of Judean kings.
2003 -- "Royal Tombs," City of David - Siloam area
The Bordeaux Pilgrim visited this area circa 333 AD. He wrote the following: "Also as you come out of Jerusalem to go up Mount Sion, on the left hand, below in the valley, beside the wall, is a pool which is called Siloe and has four porticoes; and there is another large pool outside it."
The lower pool was rediscovered in 2005 during some sewer construction and found to be the Roman era Pool of Siloam from the times of Jesus.
Parable of the Mustard Seed
A Mustard Field Along Highway 87-North Shore of Galilee
Mustard Seeds in the Palm of a Hand
Mustard Flowers
Giant Mustard
Upper Most Seats of the Synagogue
The Fig Tree
Mt of Olives Fig Tree, April 12-13, 2005
Fig and Pomegranite Trees Below Siloam in Jerusalem
Sycomore Fig Tree
The Good Shepherd
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
Goat Herder
Camels
Ritual Cleansing
Shechem
The Olive Harvest of Samaria
Mt. Ebal
Olive Tree
Pearl of Great Price
A First Century Synagogue at Gamala
Overview of Gamala
Modern Galilee Fishing Boats
Kursi
Caves and/or Tombs
Steep Slope Near Kursi
Hippos
Feeding the 5,000
On the Mountain
Walking on Water
Ramot-Tzelon area
Mt. Hermon
The Pools of Bethesda in Jerusalem
Healing Pools
Crusader Chapel and St. Ann Church
Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem
Hezekiah's Tunnel
Overlook to Siloam
Tower of Siloam
A Watch Tower in a Vineyard/Olive Grove
Grape Vines at Beth Horan
Towers
Mt. Precipice
South Face
Summit
Over the edge
Measuring Line
View of Nazareth from near Megiddo
Nazareth
The Basilica of the Annunciation
Capernaum
Healing a Paralytic in Capernaum
Bethsaida
Waterskins and Wineskins
The Fish and the Coin
Barbel
A Denarius
Casting Out a Demon
The Road to Jericho
Old Roman Road
Wilderness Above Jericho
Old Jericho
Western Wall
Gethsemane and the Cave of Gethsemane
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Rolling Stone Tombs - Jerusalem
Other Rolling Stone Tombs
Tiberias
Solar Power in Israel
Salt of the earth
Chorazin
OTHER WEB SITES BY DAVID HALL:
Israel Photos VI
Israel Photos V -- Spring 2011
Israel Photos IV -- Pilgrimage
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