John, Chapter 7 - Jesus Teaches at the Feast
7 After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near. 3 So His brothers said to Him, “Move on from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret when he himself is striving to be known publicly. If You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” 5 For not even His brothers believed in Him.
- After these things (it’s a continuation of the previous story; it was about some of the believers falling away because Jesus said unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you; these people were thinking literally or physically rather than spiritually. After they left, Jesus asked his twelve disciples if they wanted to leave too; but Simon Peter answered, “You have words of eternal life. 69 And we have already believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God” His true disciples had to learn to listen to Jesus in light of eternity which is spiritual. And yet, one of them was Judas Iscariot who would later betray Jesus with a false kiss)
- It was after these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, For He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him (Jesus is walking in the circle because He was unwilling to walk in Judea the land of the Jews because the Jews were seeking to kill him.. (Jesus is unwilling to throw his pearls before the swine)
- Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.
- An article from Tabletalk Magazine may help us understand more:
- “You shall dwell in booths for seven days … that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God” (vv. 42–43).
- Leviticus 23:33–43
- Few of the feasts that were a part of old covenant worship were as joyful as the Feast of Booths. Also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or by its Hebrew name, Sukkot, this celebration was the last of the fall festivals and was held at the end of the agricultural year when the grapes and olives were harvested in Israel. This was a time to thank God for all of the preceding year’s provision and to pray for a good rainy season, which lasted from October through March.
- Primarily, however, Sukkot was designed to remember the wilderness journey from Egypt to Canaan, when God made the people live in booths (Lev. 23:33–43). During the time of the feast, each Israelite family was supposed to construct a booth, or sukkah, and live in it for a week (vv. 42–43). These booths were small, temporary shelters with thatched roofs of palm fronds and other plants, and according to one interpretation of verse 41, they were decorated with different kinds of fruit that grew in Palestine. Later generations obeyed the command to rejoice with fruit and foliage (v. 40) by having men carry an etrog, or citron, and a lulav in joyful processions.
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