These are the steps leading to what used to be the double gate before the crusaders decided to build a wall there. These steps are from the time of Herod and the gate would have been the gate that the Jews would have gone through to get to the temple. Because the city has been destroyed and re-built so much over the last 2,000 years, there really aren't that many spots where you can say that you are sure Christ would have walked but this is one of them. It is absolutely certain that as Christ went in and out of the temple, this is where he would have entered.
After a tour of the Holy Land in 1988, Neil Armstrong asked to be taken to a place that they could guarantee him Christ had walked. The tour guide took him here to this spot. While standing here, Armstrong the first man to walk on the MOON said, "It means more to me to stand on these steps then to stand on the moon"It is also plausible also that this is where the blind man that Christ healed would have been situated. If you will recall, Christ spat in the dirt and put the clay on the eyes of the man commanding him to wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam. These steps lead directly from the temple to the pool of Siloam. Can you imagine a man blind walking down these steps?
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