This is the pool mentioned in John v.

2, where in later times lay the impotent man waiting to be healed.
Who are these who are busily engaged repairing the Sheep Gate and the wall beyond it; they are the priests, who have left their work in the temple courts close by, and who, with their loins girded and their long white tunics turned up, are leading, as it was right they should, the van of Nehemiah's effort.
Heading these priests, and superintending their work, is Eliashib the high priest.

The meaning of his name is _God restores_, a grand name for the man who began the restoration of the Holy City.

This Eliashib was the grandson of the high priest Jeshua, who had returned with Zerubbabel.

He is honourably mentioned by Nehemiah as leading the way in this work; but, sad to say, though he earnestly built the wall round the city, Eliashib was afterward the one who let sin come within those very walls.
The priests are building from the Sheep Gate as far as the two towers, Meah and Hananeel, which stood at the north-east corner of the city.
We pass on, and next we see a number of men building; we notice at once, by their dress, that they are not priests, so we ask them where they come from.