John 10:20-22
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
20 Many of them said, “He is possessed and out of his mind; why listen to him?”(A) 21 Others said, “These are not the words of one possessed; surely a demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”(B)
Feast of the Dedication. 22 The feast of the Dedication[a] was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter.(C)
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- 10:22 Feast of the Dedication: an eight-day festival of lights (Hebrew, Hanukkah) held in December, three months after the feast of Tabernacles (Jn 7:2), to celebrate the Maccabees’ rededication of the altar and reconsecration of the temple in 164 B.C., after their desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Dn 8:13; 9:27; cf. 1 Mc 4:36–59; 2 Mc 1:18–2:19; 10:1–8).
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