The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

SECTION LVI.

[CHRIST. XXXIII]

JOHN Chap. VII. from Ver. 2. to Ver. 10.

The Feast of Tabernacles.

MATTHEW and MARK both relate that when Jesus had ended these sayings, which are contained in the preceding Section, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan, Matth. 19. 1. Mark 10. 1. which is not to be understood as if he departed thither presently, but they say no more of his actions till his departure thither: and so pass over almost half a years story in silence, which Luke and John do make up. These bring Jesus out of Galilee beyond Jordan, and presently back to Jerusalem to his passion: but these as we shall see, bring him twice to Jerusalem, before his last coming up, namely this to the feast of Tabernacles, and another to the Feast of Dedication.

The Brethren, that is, the kinsmen of Jesus urge him to go up to the feast of Tabernacles, that his Disciples in Judea might see his works, ver. 3. remember here John 3. 22. & 4. 1. His brethren themselves believed not on him, ver. 5. and that the rather, because they thought his privacy that he desired to keep in, was not answerable to the port and state of the Messias: therefore they desire that he would appear in the power of his miracles in Judea the center of the Nation, that if he were the Messias, he might carry it out there, as they expected the Messias should do.