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John 10:22 Cross-References
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“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.”
John 10:22 (KJV)
Commentary on John 10:22
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter—John provides temporal and geographical context. The "feast of the dedication" is Hanukkah (ἐγκαίνια/enkainia), the Festival of Lights, commemorating the rededication of the temple in 164 BC after Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated it. The Maccabees cleansed the temple, and miraculously, one day's worth of consecrated oil burned for eight days.The mention of "winter" (χειμὼν/cheimōn) is both chronological (Hanukkah falls in December) and possibly symbolic—spiritual coldness among the religious leaders who should have recognized...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
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