Approaching Booths Feast Festival Jewish Jews Jew's Nigh Tabernacles Tent-pitching Tents
7:2 Now the Jews' {a} feast of tabernacles was at hand.
(a) This feast was so called because of the booths and tents which they made out of different types of boughs, and sat under them seven days altogether; and during this entire time the feast went on.
7:2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. It fell in the month Tizri, covering part of September and of October, and lasted for a week. It was one of the three feasts that all Jews were expected to attend.
7:2 The feast of tabernacles - The time, manner, and reason of this feast may be seen, Lev 23:34, and c.
7:1-13 The brethren or kinsmen of Jesus were disgusted, when they found there was no prospect of worldly advantages from him. Ungodly men sometimes undertake to counsel those employed in the work of God; but they only advise what appears likely to promote present advantages. The people differed about his doctrine and miracles, while those who favoured him, dared not openly to avow their sentiments. Those who count the preachers of the gospel to be deceivers, speak out, while many who favour them, fear to get reproach by avowing regard for them.
Approaching Booths Feast Festival Hand Jewish Jews Jew's Nigh Tabernacles Tents
Approaching Booths Feast Festival Hand Jewish Jews Jew's Nigh Tabernacles Tents
