Solomon's Portico

Our scripture passage for today (Acts 5:12-16) mentions “Solomon’s Portico” (“Solomon’s Porch” in some translations).

In the image above, you can see an historical recreation of the Temple Mount, with the columned porticos running around the perimeter. Solomon’s Portico is the one that cannot be seen at the bottom of the image, along the Eastern Wall.

(By the way, the Greek word for porch or portico is spelled stoa in English, which is the word from which we get our term Stoic. The Stoics got their name from teaching on a portico in Athens.)