POOL OF BETHESDA | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 24, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 33.

POOL OF BETHESDA.

ANOTHER relic of the far-away past is also reported to have been discovered in Palestine; this is no less than the Pool of Bethesda, which Mr. James Glaisher, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, writes to the Times to say that Herr Conrad Schick has found. Recently certain works of Algerian monks revealed a large tank cut in the rock, with twenty-four steps leading down into it, and now Herr Schick has discovered a "sister pool, lying end to end, sixty feet long, and of the same breadth!" If, therefore, each side of the twin pools had a portico, and there was one in the wall of separation, we get the pool with five porches, which Bethesda had. Thus one after another are sites mentioned in Holy Writ being verified.—London Nonconformist.