Israeli police said on Friday they arrested two people suspected of vandalising a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem earlier this week.
Police said in a statement that extensive damage had been caused to gravestones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery, calling it an “act of intentional vandalism and defacement”.
Plans are underway to open the Biblical site where Jesus is said to have given sight to a man who was born blind.
The Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem’s City of David archaeological site is revered by both Christians and Jews.
It is currently being excavated and will either be opened to the public piece by piece or once the entire site is unearthed.
The Daily Mail reports that is expected to take several years.
The pool was built around 2,700 years ago as part of King Hezekiah’s construction of Jerusalem’s water system.
The site served as a reservoir for the Gihon Spring from which water was diverted and stored in underground tunnels.
It’s where Jesus gave sight to a man who was born blind as told in John 9:1-7:
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Read the article byu Tony Davenport on Vision Christian Media.