The Pool of Siloam is the site of a miracle in the Gospel of John—Jesus cures a man born blind and sends him to wash here:

“Jesus spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, saying to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see” (Jn 9:1-41).

The pool’s name means “sent” because the water that flowed into it came from a spring on the other side of Jerusalem that had been re-routed. See where it is situated in the city of Jerusalem on this map.

Present-day excavations uncovered half of a courtyard with stone steps that would have descended to the pool (the other half of the pool lies below private land and is still buried in the images below). No church or other structures were built over this site, so there is a lot of certainty that this is a first century pool from the era of Herod—the same pool described in the Gospel of John in the account of this miracle.

This video presents part of the Gospel of John proclaimed on the steps of the Pool of Siloam:

Scripture Passages Associated with this Site

Jn 9:1-41 — Jesus heals the man born blind