Feast of Dedication
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Date: Winter · Feast of Dedication. John 10:22 explicitly supplies the season and festival, not an absolute year.
During the winter Feast of Dedication, Jesus walks in Solomon’s Colonnade. Asked directly about being the Christ, he speaks of his works, his sheep and his unity with the Father, then escapes another attempt to seize him.
John explicitly names the season and festival, but not an absolute year. The festival recalls the temple’s rededication; the linked historical-era card provides that background separately from John’s canonical narrative.
Primary Scripture
10:22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,
10:23 and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
10:24 So the Jews gathered around Him and demanded, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
10:25 “I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.
10:26 But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.
10:27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
10:29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
10:30 I and the Father are one.”
10:31 At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.
10:32 But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”
10:33 “We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, make Yourself out to be God.”
10:34 Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?
10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—
10:36 then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
10:37 If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.
10:38 But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
10:39 At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
Related Scripture
Jesus quotes this psalm in answering the charge of blasphemy; read its judgment setting as well as the quoted line.
Location evidence
John explicitly names Jerusalem and Solomon’s Colonnade. The marker gives city orientation rather than a reconstruction of the colonnade.
Event map marker: Identified site; [longitude, latitude] = [35.23494, 31.77744]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.
Jerusalem: Identified site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.23494, 31.77744]. Classification source: rule.
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For the class
How does Jesus ask his hearers to consider his works alongside his words?
Interpretation and reuse
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