Teks -- John 10:23 (NET)

10:23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.

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Robertson: Joh 10:23 - Was walking

Was walking ( periepatei ).

Imperfect active of peripateō , to walk around, picturesque imperfect.

Robertson: Joh 10:23 - In Solomon’ s porch

In Solomon’ s porch ( en tēi stoāi tou Solomōnos ).

A covered colonnade or portico in which people could walk in all weather. See Act 3:11; Act 5:12 for this porch. This particular part of Solomon’ s temple was left uninjured by the Babylonians and survived apparently till the destruction of the temple by Titus a.d. 70 (Josephus, Ant. XX. 9, 7). When John wrote, it was, of course, gone.

Vincent: Joh 10:23 - Solomon's porch

Solomon's porch

A covered colonnade on the eastern side of the outer court of the temple. According to Josephus it was a relic of Solomon's days, which had remained intact in the destruction of the temple by Nebuchadnezzar.

Wesley: Joh 10:23 - In Solomon's portico

Josephus informs us, that when Solomon built the temple, he filled up a part of the adjacent valley, and built a portico over it toward the east. This was a noble structure, supported by a wall four hundred cubits high: and continued even to the time of Albinus and Agrippa, which was several years after the death of Christ.

JFB: Joh 10:22-23 - it was . . . the feast of the dedication

Celebrated rather more than two months after the feast of tabernacles, during which intermediate period our Lord seems to have remained in the neighborhood of Jerusalem. It was instituted by Jude Maccabeus, to commemorate the purification of the temple from the profanations to which it had been subjected by Antiochus Epiphanes 165 B.C., and kept for eight days, from the twenty-fifth Chisleu (December), the day on which Judas began the first joyous celebration of it (I Maccabees 4:52, 56, 59; and JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 7.7.7).

JFB: Joh 10:22-23 - it was winter

Implying some inclemency. Therefore,

JFB: Joh 10:23 - Jesus walked . . . in Solomon's porch

For shelter. This portico was on the east side of the temple, and JOSEPHUS says it was part of the original structure of Solomon [Antiquities, 20.9.7].

Clarke: Joh 10:23 - Solomon’ s porch

Solomon’ s porch - By what we find in Josephus, Ant. b. xx. c. 8, s. 7, a portico built by Solomon, on the east side of the outer court of the temple, was left standing by Herod, when he rebuilt the temple. This portico was four hundred cubits long, and was left standing, probably, because of its grandeur and beauty. But when Agrippa came to Jerusalem, a few years before the destruction of the city by the Romans, and about eighty years after Herod had begun his building, (till which time what Herod had begun was not completed), the Jews solicited Agrippa to repair this portico at his own expense, using for argument, not only that the building was growing ruinous, but that otherwise eighteen thousand workmen, who had all of them, until then, been employed in carrying on the works of the temple, would be all at once deprived of a livelihood.

Calvin: Joh 10:23 - And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch

23.And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch The Evangelist gives to Solomon’s porch the designation of the temple; not that it was the sanctuary, but only an appendage to the temple Nor does he mean the ancient porch which was built by Solomon, which had been altogether destroyed by the Chaldeans, but that which the Jews — perhaps immediately after their return from the Babylonish captivity — built after the pattern of the ancient porch, and gave it the same name, that it might be more highly honored; and Herod afterwards built a new temple.

TSK: Joh 10:23 - in Solomon’ s

in Solomon’ s : Act 3:11, Act 5:12

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Poole: Joh 10:23

Of this Solomon’ s porch we read, 1Ki 6:3 , that Solomon built the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits long, and ten cubits broad. This was the place where they walked in winter. Though this was destroyed when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians; yet it seemeth that there was one built that was like it, and kept that name. It should seem that it was a place better defended from the weather, than those other parts of the temple where in summer time they used to walk.

Haydock: Joh 10:23

In the gallery of Solomon, which was near the temple, supposed to be attached to the eastern gate of the court, and called beautiful. See Acts iii. 2.

Gill: Joh 10:23 - And Jesus walked in the temple // in Solomon's porch

And Jesus walked in the temple,.... To keep himself warm, and to secure him the better from the inclemency of the weather:

in Solomon's porch; which was covered over, and the outside of it was enclosed with a wall, which made it very convenient for such a purpose: this was on the outside of the temple eastward, and was a very magnificent structure: the account Josephus ⁿ gives of it is this;

"there was a porch without the temple, overlooking a deep valley, supported by walls of four hundred cubits, made of four square stone, very white; the length of each stone was twenty cubits, and the breadth six; the work of king Solomon, who first founded the whole temple.''

Now, though this was not the porch that was built by Solomon, yet as it was built on the same spot, and in imitation of it, it bore his name; mention is made of it in Act 3:11.