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SOLOMONS PORTICO

The public meeting place on the eastern side of the temple mount platform which was surrounded by rows of pillars forming a portico (Gk. stoá toú Solomṓntos). According to Josephus, who regarded this area as a remnant of Solomon’s temple, its Herodian expansion during the end of the Second Temple period is said to have included a span of 15 m. (49 ft.) of double monolithic columns some 11.5 m. (38 ft.) tall, fashioned of white marble supporting an impressive roof paneled with cedar. This colonnaded area of the temple precinct served as a gathering place for Jesus and his disciples (John 10:23) as well as the early Jerusalem Church (Acts 2:46; 5:12). Because people customarily assembled in this place to discuss religious matters when going to the temple for ceremonial rituals, it was an ideal location for Jesus’ teaching and the apostles’ confirmatory performance of miracles (Acts 3:11; 5:12). No remains exist today, but some have suggested, based on a report by the 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea, that the Nea Church, whose remains have been discovered, was constructed of pillars from this area.

J. Randall Price

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SOLOMONS PORTICO

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)