John Gill's Exposition on John 7:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now about the midst of the feast, etc.] About the fourth day of it, for it lasted eight days; this might be on the sabbath day, which sometimes was gjh Æwtb, “in the middle of the feast” f299; 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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