At the Feast of Dedication: “I and the Father are one”
In winter, at the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah), Jesus walked in Solomon's porch in the temple. Pressed to say plainly whether he was the Christ, he pointed to his works and said, “I and the Father are one.”
I and the Father are one.
John 10:30 (World English Bible)
His hearers picked up stones to stone him for blasphemy. At the feast that celebrated the rededication of the temple after Antiochus had defiled it, Jesus spoke of himself as the one whom the Father “sanctified” and sent into the world (John 10:36). He withdrew beyond the Jordan, to where John had first baptized.
Places
JerusalemJordanSolomon’s Portico
Dating notes
Ussher: December AD 32. On the feast itself, see the first Hanukkah in 164 BC.