Category:Solomon's Porch

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Solomon's Porch - A colonnade on the east of the temple, so called from a tradition that it was a relic of Solomon's temple left standing after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (Compare 1 Kings 7:6.) The word "porch" is in the New Testament the rendering of three different Greek words: (1.) Stoa, meaning a portico or veranda (John 5:2; John 10:23; Acts 3:11; Acts 5:12). (2.) Pulon, a gateway (Matthew 26:71). (3.) Proaulion, the entrance to the inner court (Mark 14:68).