Jesus at The Hanukkah (edited)

The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out (John 1:5 CEV).

In a long ago winter, during one Hanukkah*, Jesus was again recorded in the Temple. (He may well have been to many Jerusalem Hanukkah celebrations, as to the other recurring events in his culture.) John here gives us a note of the chronology of Jesus' life.

Be Freed!

Free? or slave? These were crucial person categories in Jesus’ day.  Ordinary people seemed shocked then when Jesus said he could set them free. In John chapter 8 this offer of freedom is made clear.