Pool Where Jesus Healed a Blind Man Discovered, "Exactly Where John Said It Was"

Jessilyn Justice : Feb 4, 2016
Charisma News

A Gospel that was thought [by some] to be "pure theology is now shown to be grounded in history." -New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth of the Princeton Theological Seminary.

Archaeological evidence now proves the Gospel of John is true. (Photo via YouTube)

Though discovered more than a decade ago, the pool of Siloam continues to make headlines, most recently in an analysis by author and speaker Eric Metaxas.

In John 9, Jesus spat in the dirt, rubbed the mud on a blind man's eyes and then commanded him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam.

Workers stumbled upon this very pool in 2005 while repairing sewage pipes.

"Scholars have said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit" to illustrate a point, New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth told the Los Angeles Times. "Now we have found the Pool of Siloam... exactly where John said it was."

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