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Juan 10:23
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in Solomon's: Acts 3:11, Acts 5:12
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:3 - General 1 Kings 7:12 - the porch 2 Chronicles 3:4 - the porch 2 Chronicles 8:12 - before the porch Haggai 2:7 - I will fill Mark 10:30 - eternal Mark 11:27 - as he Mark 14:49 - was John 18:20 - I spake Acts 7:58 - stoned
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Jesus walked in the temple,.... To keep himself warm, and to secure him the better from the inclemency of the weather:
in Solomon's porch; which was covered over, and the outside of it was enclosed with a wall, which made it very convenient for such a purpose: this was on the outside of the temple eastward, and was a very magnificent structure: the account Josephus n gives of it is this;
"there was a porch without the temple, overlooking a deep valley, supported by walls of four hundred cubits, made of four square stone, very white; the length of each stone was twenty cubits, and the breadth six; the work of king Solomon, who first founded the whole temple.''
Now, though this was not the porch that was built by Solomon, yet as it was built on the same spot, and in imitation of it, it bore his name; mention is made of it in Acts 3:11.
n Antiqu. l. 20. c. 8. sect. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Solomon’s porch - The porch or covered way on the east of the temple. See the notes at Matthew 21:12.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 23. Solomon's porch. — By what we find in Josephus, Ant. b. xx. c. 8, s. 7, a portico built by Solomon, on the east side of the outer court of the temple, was left standing by Herod, when he rebuilt the temple. This portico was four hundred cubits long, and was left standing, probably, because of its grandeur and beauty. But when Agrippa came to Jerusalem, a few years before the destruction of the city by the Romans, and about eighty years after Herod had begun his building, (till which time what Herod had begun was not completed,) the Jews solicited Agrippa to repair this portico at his own expense, using for argument, not only that the building was growing ruinous, but that otherwise eighteen thousand workmen, who had all of them, until then, been employed in carrying on the works of the temple, would be all at once deprived of a livelihood.
