A spring-fed pool with five porches where people waited their turn to step into the mysteriously troubled waters that were supposed to possess healing virtue (Jn 5:2-4). The historicity of this site was once in question. But recent archaeological discoveries confirmed the Biblical account. In 1956, digging at the ancient Biblical site of Bethesda, archaeologists unearthed a rectangular pool with a portico on each side and a fifth one dividing the pool into 2 separate compartments.
The place is now thought to be the pool found during the repairs in 1888 near St. Anne's Church in the Bezetha quarter of Jerusalem not far from the Sheep's Gate and Tower of Antonia. It is below the crypt of the ruined fourth-century church and has a five-arch portico with faded frescoes of the miracle of Christ's healing.
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1900 photo of the traditional pool of Siloam
Reference in the Bible
Joh 5:3 In these lay a multitude of them that were sick, blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water
