Pool Of Siloam Blind Man
The compass of this miracle seems to escape many readers because it involved a complete rewrite of the man s brain.
Pool of siloam blind man. The pool was reconstructed no earlier than the reign of alexander jannaeus 103 76 bce although it is not clear whether this pool was in the same location as the earlier pool built by hezekiah if so all traces of the earlier construction have been destroyed. The pool of siloam where jesus ordered a blind man to go to wash mud out of his eyes lay undiscovered until 2004. In old jerusalem workers have stumbled upon the ruins of the siloam pool wherein john s gospel jesus cures a man who is blind from birth the new find is praised as a discovery that helps to demonstrate the bible s historical authenticity.
Then he tells him to wash in the pool of siloam. So the blind man was sent to a pool called sent by the one who was himself sent by god into the world john 3 17. The site of the original pool of siloam has been excavated and there is still a pool there but it is hardly the splendid place that it once was.
It is very interesting that jesus chose this place to send the blind man john 9 6 7 for it was recorded among the writings of the oral law that this was the messiah s pool. The old testament clearly identifies the messiah as the sent one numerous times and siloam is the same word in the hebrew and the english transliteration is the word apostle or missionary. For example to tell the story of the pool of siloam where jesus cured the blind man we must go back 700 years before that to the time of the assyrian monarch sennacherib and his siege of jerusalem.
The pool remained in use during the time of jesus according to the gospel of john jesus sent a man blind from birth to the pool. 400 460 a d to. Then a drainage repair crew working on pipe maintenance south of the old city of jerusalem uncovered large stone steps that had led to an ancient pool dating from the first century bc.
The second siloam pool is the location of the biblical miracle from john 9 where jesus heals a man who had been blind since birth. Siloam is the name of a pool outside jerusalem the evangelist john tells how jesus sends a man who s been blind from birth to this pool to wash john 9 7 and 9 11 the man goes and comes back seeing. Jesus spits on the ground makes mud and puts this mud on the man s eyes.
In the bible it records that after washing in the siloam pool the man receives his sight. According to the gospel of john it was at the siloam pool where jesus healed the blind man john 9 1 11. Until then a much smaller pool 50 metres north west at the end of hezekiah s tunnel.
The blind man needed no guide to siloam and if he had clone so there would have been a score of helpers or curious on lookers anxious to test the meaning of the lord s command. Where jesus healed the blind man. Hezekiah the judahite king at that time could see the assyrian siege coming.
And he came away from siloam seeing.
