What was the Festival of Dedication?

[tonychanyt]

John 10:

22 Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

This festival was not prescribed by Moses. It celebrated the rededication of the Second Temple in 165 BC.

Wiki:

The Feast of Dedication, today Hanukkah, once also called the "Feast of the Maccabees", is a Jewish festival observed for eight days from the 25th of Kislev (usually in December, but occasionally late November, due to the lunisolar calendar). It was instituted in the year 165 B.C. by Judas Maccabeus, his brothers, and the elders of the congregation of Israel in commemoration of the reconsecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, and especially of the altar of burnt offerings, after they had been desecrated during the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes (168 BC).

It is also known as the Feast of Lights.

 

[Reluctant Theologian]

John 10:


This festival was not prescribed by Moses. It celebrated the rededication of the Second Temple in 165 BC.

Wiki:


It is also known as the Feast of Lights.

This Feast of Lights is important because it provides the context for Yeshua declaring Himself 'the Light of the World' during this feast. His Light would never run out of olive oil - olive oil being a symbol of the Holy Spirit.