“ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. ”
The feast of the dedication - Literally, the feast of the renewing, or of the renovation. This feast was instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, in the year 164 b.c. The temple and city were taken by Ant...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the (h) dedication, and it was winter. (h) The feast of the dedication was instituted by Judas Maccabeus and his brethren after the restoring of God's true relig...
The Feast of the Dedication. Mg., At that time suggests a closer connexion with what precedes than the old reading And. But in any case the notes of time are not precise. The Feast of the Dedicat...
And. Figure of speech Chronographia. App-6. at. Greek. en. App-104. the feast of the dedication. Greek. enkainia = renewal, from kainos, new, i.e. the cleansing of Ezra's temple after...
22. And it was the feast of Dedication. The Greek word ( ἐγκαίνια) which we have translated dedication, (298) properly signifies renovations; because the temple, which had been polluted...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. The feast of the dedication - This was a feast instituted by Judas Maccabeus, in commemoration of his purifying the temple afte...
It was—the feast of the dedication,— As this feast was in winter, it could not be observed in commemoration of the dedication of the temple by Solomon, which happened in the month Ethanim, which...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And - or rather, 'Now,' as beginning a new subject, It was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication. Recent interpr...
The Good Shepherd. The Feast of the Dedication 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39 . His...
Between the last verse and this there is an interval of time which may be roughly taken as two months. Wieseler has calculated that the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles was on October 19, and the...
Chapter 22 JESUS, SON OF GOD. “And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. The Jews therefore came round about Him,...
Our Assurance of Safe-Keeping John 10:19-30 Our Lord did not shrink from the avowal of His divine origin and glory, when there was need or when they were challenged. See John 4:26 ; Matthew 2...
Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock w...
There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. (20) And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? (21) Others said, These are not the words of him that...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication ,.... That is, of the temple; not as built by Solomon, as Nonnus in his paraphrase suggests; or as rebuilt by Zerubabel, for there were no annual...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. Ver. 22. The feast of the dedication ] viz. Of the temple newly purged from the pollutions of Antiochus, that little antich...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication Or, as εγενετο δε τα εγκαινια may be rendered, Now the feast of dedication came on at Jerusalem: for it does not appear that the preceding disc...
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then enter...
Christ's Conference with the Jews. 22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked...
This verse affords two questions, which have not a little troubled interpreters. 1. What feast of dedication this was? 2. Whether dedications of places to the worship of God be warrantable or no,...
‘And it was the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter.' The feast of dedication was a winter festival and celebrated the rededication of the Temple in 165/4 BC by Judas Maccabaeus, aft...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 10:22-38 . Our Lord’s utterances at the feast of dedication on His oneness with the Father, etc. —This feast (τὰ ἐγκαίνια—the Encænia) was post-exilic in its...
John 10:1 . Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. The positiveness of our Lord's t...
John 10:1 . He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber. After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abr...
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of Dedication The origin and character of the feast of Dedication Antiochus Epiphanes, on his return from the conquest of Egypt, having entered Jerusalem with...
EXPOSITION John 10:1-43 5. Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God . The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malign...
And it was at Jerusalem, the Feast of the Dedication, and it was winter.
It was the feast of the dedication — Instituted by Judas Maccabeus, 1 Macc. iv, 59, when he purged and dedicated the altar and temple after they had been polluted. So our Lord observed festivals ev...