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The Feast of Rededication
Commentators explain this was the Feast of Dedication, now known as Hanukkah. It was not a feast commanded by Moses but was instituted by Judas Maccabeus (c. 164 B.C.) to celebrate the purification and rededication of the temple after it had been desecrated by the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes. It was an eight-day festival in December celebrating God's deliverance.
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Albert Barnes
On John 10:22
18th Century
Theologian
The feast of the dedication. Literally, the feast of the renewing, or of the renovation. This feast was instituted by Judas Macca…
AT Robertson
On John 10:22
And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem (εγενετο δε τα ενκαινια εν τοις Ιεροσολυμοις). But Westcott and Hort read τοτε…
Charles Ellicott
On John 10:22
19th Century
Bishop
Between the last verse and this, there is an interval of time that can be roughly estimated as two months. Wieseler has calculated that the last da…
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 10:17–26
19th Century
Preacher
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 10:22
The Feast of Dedication, now known as Hanukkah, was established as a memorial to the purification and rededication of the temple by Judas Maccabeus…
John Calvin
On John 10:22
16th Century
Theologian
And it was the feast of Dedication. The Greek word (ἐγκαίνια), which we have translated dedication, properly signifies renova…
John Gill
On John 10:22
17th Century
Pastor
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication
That is, of the temple; not as built by Solomon, as Nonnus in his…
Matthew Henry
On John 10:22–30
17th Century
Minister
All who have anything to say to Christ may find him in the temple. Christ would have us believe; we make ourselves doubt. The Jews understood his m…