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• As the Jews wonder whether Jesus has a devil, whether he is like Antiochus Epiphanies, causing craft and deceit to prosper in the Land, John records that it is “the feast of dedication”, and it is winter. In other words, the Jews, including Jesus, are, at this very time, celebrating Hannukah, “the Feast of Dedication”, as Jesus walks through the Temple. That very Temple that Jesus is walking through, is the very Temple that was desecrated by the Greeks, the very Temple that his ancestors had fought for and won their victory. It was the very Temple that the priests, under the Maccabean victory, had risen up to defend, to throw off the shackles of Greek tyranny and culture and language, and gain their independence, the freedom to worship the God of Heaven.