Friday, 3/31/17
The Feast of Tabernacles mentioned in today’s Gospel was a
week-long feast in the autumn of every year. The people of Jerusalem, in commemorating
the forty years of their wandering in the desert, came out of their houses to
spend the whole week in the streets, living in tabernacles or tents.
John gave over all of his Chapter 7 and 8 to the events of
that final Feast of Tabernacles for Jesus. In the evenings the people all
passed up to the temple yard where they acted out some of their hardships from Exodus.
Like, one evening the temple servants brought buckets of water from Siloam,
pouring it over the altar from the back in a semblance of Moses bringing forth
water from a rock.
Living out in the streets probably contributed to the woman
being caught In adultery.
A specialty of the Feast of Tabernacles was the giant torch
glowing for the week over the temple yard. Jesus would make mention of it on
the last day of the feast that year.
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