Day 7 of 21
John 7
At the Feast of Tabernacles Jesus teaches openly despite threats, promising rivers of living water, while the crowds and leaders divide sharply over his identity.
Rising hostility in Jerusalem frames Jesus' teaching at the autumn feast, six months before his final Passover.
“As the believer in Christ would have in time to, come to hide himself from persecution, that no guilt might attach to such concealment, the Head began with doing Himself, what He sanctioned in the member; After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill Him.”
“The connection of this passage admits of much taking place in the interval previously. Judea and Galilee are divisions of the province of Palestine. Judea has its name from the tribe of Judah; but it embraces not only the territories of Judah, but of Benjamin, all of which were called Judea, because Judah was the royal tribe Galilee has its name, from the milky, i.e. white, color of its inhabitants; Galilee being…”
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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