– DVD video chapter – Pools of Siloam/Bethesda

– Location –

This Pool of Siloam was constructed in order to collect the water diverted by Hezekiah's tunnel.  A remarkable accomplishment of King Hezekiah was the construction in 700 B.C. of a tunnel that was used to protect Jerusalem's water supply from the invading Assyrian army.  It was truly a remarkable feat to accomplish some 2600 years ago.  The Pool of Bethesda, located below the modern street level just north of the Temple, is rectangular in shape, surrounded on all four sides by porches and divided laterally by a fifth porch.  Both the Pool of Siloam and the Pool of Bethesda are sites of two of the most famous miracles of Jesus. 

– Scripture –

·         2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:30 - King Hezekiah constructs the tunnel in order to save the city from the Assyrian army led by Sennacherib.

·         John 9:1-12 - Jesus heals the man who was born blind by instructing him to go wash in the Pool of Siloam.

·         John 5 - Jesus heals the man who had been a cripple for 38 years at the Pool of Bethesda. 

– Questions –

1.     How was the blind man healed and who healed him?  Did he know who healed him?

2.     Was the man healed by faith or was faith the result of Christ’s healing?

3.     The man at the Pool of Bethesda had been there 38 years and was never healed and why did Jesus ask him such an illogical question?

4.  Was the man healed by a positive or negative question (verse6) from Jesus?

 – Map (from www.anova.org) – http://www.anova.org/sev/atlas/htm/112.htm