But occasion arose for His abandoning His purpose to remain in Galilee. ἦν δὲ … σκηνοπηγία. In Hebrew חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת (Leviticus 23:34), the Feast of Succoth, or Booths, in Greek σκηνοπηγία, the fixing of tents; so called because in this Feast the Jews commemorated how their fathers had dwelt in tents, and been fed and cared for as if in a settled condition. It was one of the great Feasts, and as it fell in October and Jesus had not attended the previous Passover, it might seem desirable that He should go up to Jerusalem now.

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