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It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
The feast of the dedication. Literally, the feast of the renewing, or of the renovation. This feast was instituted by Judas Macca…
And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem (εγενετο δε τα ενκαινια εν τοις Ιεροσολυμοις). But Westcott and Hort read τοτε…
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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…
The Feast of Dedication, now known as Hanukkah, was established as a memorial to the purification and rededication of the temple by Judas Maccabeus…
16th Century
Protestant
And it was the feast of Dedication. The Greek word (ἐγκαίνια), which we have translated dedication, properly signifies renova…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication That is, of the temple; not as built by Solomon, as Nonnus in his…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that he has the power to give life and demonstrating his manner of doing so, our Lord here shows how this power to give lif…
