Bezetha (Hebrew: בית זיתא), also called by Josephus the New City,[1] was a suburb of Jerusalem during the late Second Temple period.
It was located north and north-west of the Temple, built opposite the Antonia Fortress (now in proximity to the Convent of the Sisters of Zion and Ecce Homo on Via Dolorosa Street) and extending as far as Herod's Gate westward and beyond.
American missionary and explorer, James Turner Barclay, in his seminal work The City of the Great King, calls Zedekiah's Cave by the hill on which it is located, "Mount Bezetha".
[4] During the outbreak of the First Jewish-Roman War, Cestius Gallus set fire to this sparsely inhabited part of the city.
[5] Today, the area of Bezetha comprises part of the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City.