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 even of human appointment. Is it not, at least, innocent for us to do the same?
JOHN 10:22 to,te {B} Of the four variant readings, de. to,te (1321 copsamss, bo, ach2) can be dismissed as a conflation, and the absence of any particle (¦1 565 1010 1344 ita, b syrs geo1 _al_)...
Verse 22. _THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION_] This was a feast instituted by _Judas Maccabeus_, in commemoration of his purifying the temple after it had been defiled by _Antiochus Epiphanes_. This feast...
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 Antiochu...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
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 Dedication...
END OF THREE MONTHS' MINISTRY IN JERUSALEM (JOHN 10:22-42) An interval of more than two months passed between the time of the healing of the man born blind and the feast of Dedication, the date of the...
It was the Festival of the Dedication in Jerusalem. It was wintry weather, and Jesus was walking in the Temple precincts in Solomon's Porch. So the Jews surrounded him. "How long, they said to him, "a...
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
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 its de...
The Discourse at the Feast of the Dedication Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles wo...
_And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication_ More literally, NOW THERE TOOK PLACE _at Jerusalem the Feast of the Dedication_. This feast might be celebrated anywhere, and the pointed insertio...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ ΔῈ Τ. ἘΓΚ. This is the reading of א A D X and the bulk of MSS., with the Syriac and some old Latin texts: the best Latin texts have _neither_ τότε nor δέ: the Memphitic gives both τότε and δέ....
THE DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION Again we seem to have a gap in the narrative. Between John 10:21-22 (but see below) there is an interval of about two months; for the Feast of Tabernacles...
Ver 22. And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24. Then came the Jews round about him, and said to him, How long...
_JESUS WAS REJECTED BY THE JEWS -- JOHN 10:22-38:_ That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the feast of the dedication. In Solomon's Porch the people gathered all around Him. They asked Jesus to tell...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊVOΜΑΙ, _см._ John 10:16. ΈΓΚΑΊΝΙΑ (G1456) обновление, вторичное посвящение. Здесь имеется в виду храмовый праздник, или праздник ханукки, который отмечали в честь...
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 ans...
CLAIMS TO DEITY _Text 10:22-31_ 22 And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: 23 it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 The Jews therefore came roun...
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 interpreters, w...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
JESUS AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION. As there is no statement that Jesus went up to Jerusalem, it is fair to infer that Jesus spent the two months between the Feast of Tabernacles and that of the Ded...
The Feast of the Dedication (lit. 'the Renewal') was instituted by Judas Maccabæus, 164 b.c., to commemorate the purification of the Temple, which had been profaned by the idolatrous king Antiochus Ep...
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 words...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
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, and...
_Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....
Ἐγένετο δὲ τὰ ἐγκαίνια. The ἐγκαίνια (Ezra 6:16) was the annual celebration of the reconsecration of the Temple by Judas Maccabaeus after its defilement by Antiochus Epiphanes (1Ma 1:20-60; 1Ma 4:36-5...
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 26:64. For...
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 wo...
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 religi...
CHAPTER 8. THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10:1-29. “ _Truly_, _truly_, _I say unto you_, _The one not coming in through the door_, _but climbing up some other way_, _he is a thief and a robber_.” It is subse...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 22-32. 1. The argument presented by Godet, as against Meyer, Weiss and others, seems satisfactory as showing that Jesus probably left Jerusalem and its ne...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
“ _Now they were celebrating the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem;it was winter._ 23. _And Jesus was walking about in the temple, in_ _Solomon's porch._ 24. _The Jews therefore surrounded him; and...
THIRD SECTION: 10:22-42. THE SECOND DISCOURSE. In chap. John 7:19-24, we have seen Jesus return, in a discourse pronounced at the feast of Tabernacles, to the fact of the healing of the impotent man ...
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 h...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
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, was agai...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
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 fea...
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 antichris...
_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 disco...
FEAST OF THE DEDICATION; this was a feast instituted by Judas Maccabaeus about one hundred and sixty-five years before Christ, in commemoration of the purification of the temple, and its renewed dedic...
AND IT WAS AT JERUSALEM, THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND IT WAS WINTER....
CHRIST'S SERMON AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. The testimony of Jesus concerning Himself:...
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 entering...
22-30 All who have any thing to say to Christ, may find him in the temple. Christ would make us to believe; we make ourselves doubt. The Jews understood his meaning, but could not form his words into...
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, in...
The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary And it came to pass that the festival of the dedication[1]...
John 10:22 Now G1161 was G1096 (G5633) Dedication G1456 in G1722 Jerusalem G2414 and G2532 was G2258 ...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....
‘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, after...
The contest with the Jews is continued. The section strikingly illustrates the plan of the gospel (1) by taking up again that claim of Jesus to be the Son of God which had, more than anything else, pr...
John 10:22. THERE CAME TO PASS AT THAT TIME THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION AT JERUSALEM: IT WAS WINTER. With these words we enter on a new scene, where the Evangelist first sets before us the outward cir...
AND IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION AT JERUSALEM (εγενετο δε τα ενκαινια εν τοις Ιεροσολυμοις). But Westcott and Hort read τοτε (then) instead of δε (and) on the authority of B L W 33 and some ve...
John 10:1. _Verily, verily, I say unto you,_ Now we may be absolutely certain that there is something of the utmost importance wherever Christ uses the solemn asseveration of «Verily, verily,» the sa...
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 teac...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
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 Abraha...
THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. Two months have passed. This feast celebrated the restoration and re-dedication of the Temple by the Jewish patriot Judas Maccabeus in 165 B.C. It lasted eight days, and began...
_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 very...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:22 The eight-day FEAST OF DEDICATION celebrates the rededication of the Jewish temple in December 164 B.C., after Antiochus IV Epiphanes had made it unclean (see note on Dan. 8:9–...
1-41 CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _Verily, verily_ (that is in truth, most truly and most assuredly), _I say unto you, He that entereth not_, &c. He puts forth this parable to show who He is, and who are His ri...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:22. _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 origin....
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 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 malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
Feast of the dedication [ε γ κ α ι ν ι α]. Only here in the New Testament. The word signifies renewal, from kainov, new, fresh. Josephus calls it fwta, lights. It was instituted by Judas Maccabaeus (B...
This feast was not of divine, but human institution; it was appointed by Judas Maccabeus, and continued eight days, as an anniversary commemoration for the repairing of the temple. Now our Saviour was...