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I had, at one time, thought about the pool which is mentioned in Jerusalem where an angel would touch the waters once a year and the first one who got into the pool was healed of an ailment. I've been trying to find the verse again as I sit here and haven't yet, but I will. I did find one interesting thing about it in John 9:7 - ..."in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.)" In that same chapter, Jesus sends a blind man whom he had just touched with the clay over his eyes and sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash.

v11: "...Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight."

Of course, I know now that healing powers aren't limited to that pool alone but, the obedience of going was all that was needed.

John 9:3 - "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be manifest in him."

Hezekiah's tunnel was dug to bring the waters from this pool into the city during the siege of the Assyrians. It lies in the southern corner of what at one time had been the City of David. It's also interesting that not far south was Aceldama, the Field of Blood that Judas bought with the money that he was given when he betrayed Jesus.
Luke 13:4 also touches on a tower that had once stood nearby to, apparently, protect the pool that had fallen on eighteen people. Jesus asks if his disciples think that because they had been killed that way that they were more evil than anyone else but, he states that anyone who doesn't repent is doomed.

I found the verse I was looking for, John 5:4, talking about the pool of Bethesda where Jesus found an infirmed man laying by the pool and couldn't get immersed in time and was healed by the Lord instead.
"For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." Bethesda in Greek - 'House of Kindness'. It's also interesting to note that the pool was by the sheep market.

Not a complete thought but, something that piqued my interest. : )