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Solomon's Portico

Also known as Solomon's Porch

Named in 2 verses, first in Acts 3:11.

In the Bible

All 2 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Acts

  • Acts 3:11

    While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.

  • Acts 5:12

    The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

Events here

Events the dataset sets at Solomon's Portico. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. AD 30
    Peter preaches in Solomon's PorticoActs 3:11–26
  2. c. AD 30
    Apostles work signs and wonders in Solomon's PorticoActs 5:12–17

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

(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.).

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