Demonstrating once again that the stories in the Bible are, in fact, fact and not fiction:
A new excavation project in Jerusalem has unearthed steps unseen in over 2,000 years at a place where the New Testament records Jesus as having healed a blind man.
The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation early this year announced that the Pool of Siloam, a biblical site cherished by Christians and Jews, will be open to the public for the first time in 2,000 years in the near future.
Earlier this year, I wrote about how the pool would be open to the public for the first time; how cool it is to see the actual steps be excavated less than a year later!
Here's a shot of the excavation site:
Looks pretty dusty — not really pool-like — but historians say it looked a lot different back in the day:
The pool itself is referenced in 2 Kings 20:20 ("As for the other events of Hezekiah's reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city…"). It's estimated to have been built about 2,700 years ago.
Rev. Johnnie Moore, the president of the Congress of Christian Leaders, told Fox News that the find demonstrates the clear truth of the biblical accounts.
"Theologically, it affirms Scripture, geographically it affirms scripture, and politically it affirms Israel's unquestionable and unrivaled link to Jerusalem," he said.
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