² tn Heb “make a feast.”

² tn Or “[wedding] feast.”

¹ tn Or “held a great feast.”

¹ tn Heb “we have a pilgrim feast (חַג, khag) to Yahweh.”

¹ sn That is, the Feast of Temporary Shelters, traditionally known as the Feast of Tabernacles (Exod 23:16; 34:22; Deut 16:16).

¹ tn Heb “to drink”; NASB “to drink wine.” The expression is a metaphor for lavish feasting, cf. NRSV “to feast”; KJV “to banquet.”

¹ tn Or “Feast of Tabernacles” or Or “Feast of Booths” (the feast where people lived in tents or huts, which was celebrated in the autumn after harvest). John’s use of σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgia) for the Feast of Shelters constitutes the only use of this term in the New Testament.

¹ sn This festival in the seventh month was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

¹ sn The festival. This was the Feast of Tabernacles, see Lev 23:34.

³ sn The danger of the false teachers at the love feasts would be especially pernicious, for the love feasts of the early church involved the Lord’s Supper, worship, and instruction.

¹ sn The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a week long celebration that followed the day of Passover, so one name was used for both feasts (Exod 12:1-20; 23:15; 34:18; Deut 16:1-8).

⁴ tn Heb “those coming of feast.” The construct chain בָּאֵי מוֹעֵד (baʾe moʿed) consists of (1) the substantival plural construct participle בָּאֵי (baʾe, “those who come”) and (2) the collective singular genitive of purpose מוֹעֵד (moʿed, “for the feasts”).

¹ sn It was winter. The feast began on 25 Kislev, in November-December of the modern Gregorian calendar.

¹ tn The words “for the feast” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied for clarity.

⁴ tn Or “booths,” “dwellings” (referring to the temporary booths constructed in the celebration of the feast of Tabernacles).

² tn The words “the feast of” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied for clarity.

³ tn Or “dwellings,” “booths” (referring to the temporary booths constructed in the celebration of the feast of Tabernacles).

¹ tn The words “the feast of” are not in the Greek text, but have been supplied for clarity.

⁴ tn Or “booths,” “dwellings” (referring to the temporary booths constructed in the celebration of the feast of Tabernacles).

² tn Or “bunch,” but this loses the irony; the word is used for the solemn assemblies at the religious feasts.