John 7:14

14 {Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

John 7:14 Meaning and Commentary

John 7:14

Now about the midst of the feast
About the fourth day of it, for it lasted eight days; this might be on the sabbath day, which sometimes was (gxh Kwtb) , "in the middle of the feast" ^F14; and the rather, since it follows,

Jesus went up into the temple;
as the Lord and proprietor of it, and as was his usual method; he had for some reasons kept himself retired till now, and now he appeared publicly:

and taught
the people his doctrine; he expounded the Scriptures, gave the true sense of them, and instructed the people out of them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Misa. Succa, c. 5. sect. 5.

John 7:14 In-Context

12 And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

13 However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

14 {Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

15 Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

16 So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but [is] from the one who sent me.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "now it being already in the middle of the feast"
• [b] *Here "[courts]" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself
• [c] *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to teach")