12 “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. 13 “‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Pergamum was a city that prided itself on several temples dedicated to the Roman Imperial cult. In the Roman period, the city of Pergamum, a former […]
TL;DR: The Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, mentioned in John 5, may have functioned as a healing shrine to the Greek god Asclepius, and its archaeological discovery helped confirm the historical reliability of the Gospel of John. The Pool of Bethesda as a healing center of Greek-god Asclepius (John 5) 1 Some time later, Jesus went up […]
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