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Joh 7:14. Μεσούσης, in the middle) This Feast of Tabernacles is described at large: The beginning of it at Joh 7:10, etc., the middle of it in this verse, and the end of it, Joh 7:37, “In the last day, that great day of the feast.” The feasts were good opportunities for edification.-ἀνέβη, He went up) The first day of the feast had been the 11th day of October, as I have observed in the Harmon. Evang. p. 85 (Ed. ii. p. 140), and so the third day of the week [Tuesday]; for on that twenty-ninth year of Dion, the Sunday letter was [178]. Therefore the Sabbath fell in the middle of the feast; and on a Sabbath day the audience was a crowded one, beyond that on all the other days of the middle of the feast, and His speech concerning the Sabbath was seasonable, Joh 7:22, “Ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the Sabbath, etc., are ye angry with Me because,” etc.-εἰς τὸ ἱερόν, into the temple) straightway, so as that He did not turn aside anywhere else first.[179]
[178] the Vatican MS., 1209: in Vat. Iibr., Rome: fourth cent.: O. and N. Test. def.
[179] He made straight for the temple first of all.-E. and T.