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Places of the Bible

Solomon's Portico

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What happened here

Peter preaches in Solomon's Portico · 30 AD
Apostles work signs and wonders in Solomon's Portico · 30 AD

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

(John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12), a colonnade, or cloister probably, on the eastern side of the temple. It is not mentioned in connection with the first temple, but Josephus mentions a porch, so called, in Herod’s temple (q.v.).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 2 verses

Acts: 3:11, 5:12

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.