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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

John 10:22-42

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, provoked the opposition of His enemies; (2) by bringing into notice His return to Bethany beyond Jordan, where He had been first made manifest by the Baptist to Israel, and where confession is now made by ‘many' that everything spoken of Him by the Baptist at His entrance upon His public ministry had proved true. We have here, therefore, the culminating- point of the conflict, and the pause before the highest manifestation by Jesus of Himself as the Resurrection and the Life. The subordinate parts are (1) John 10:22-39; (2) John 10:40-42.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    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_)...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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....

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Sayings of Jesus at the Feast of Dedication_....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND IT WAS AT JERUSALEM, THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION, AND IT WAS WINTER....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    CHRIST'S SERMON AT THE FEAST OF DEDICATION. The testimony of Jesus concerning Himself:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary And it came to pass that the festival of the dedication[1]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FEAST OF DEDICATION (JOHN 10:22)....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Bible Study New Testament

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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–...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    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...

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