Feast of Dedication
Britishnoun
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A messenger from Pilate, sent on an errand to the headquarters at Scopus, brings the tidings that Christ is in Jerusalem as a visitor at the Feast of Dedication.
From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton
On the anniversary of this occasion the Feast of Dedication was instituted.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
It is that loud and turbulent Galilean, That came here at the Feast of Dedication, And stirred the people up to break the Law!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Jesus returned to Jerusalem in time to attend the Feast of Dedication during the last winter of His earthly life.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward
The scene he chooses is Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication, that festival which commemorated the death and resurrection of the Maccabean martyrs who had given their lives for the national ideal.
From Religion and the War by Various
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