The feast of tabernacles was a feast which God ordained the Jews to keep the fifteenth day of the seventh month, (which some make to answer our September, others our October), Leviticus 23:34,39, after they had gathered in the fruits of the land. It was to be kept seven days, the first and last of which days were to be kept as sabbaths; they were all the seven days to dwell in tents, or booths, in remembrance of the forty years they so dwelt in the wilderness, passing from Egypt to Canaan, as we read there, Leviticus 23:43. Now this festival was near at hand; so as we must understand the things following to have happened about the September or October before Christ's suffering, which was at the next passover; that is, the March or April following, as we count the months.
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John 7:2
2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.