John 10:23 - Exposition

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. He walked in Solomon ' s portico— that part of the temple of Herod which the apostles afterwards adopted as the scene of some of their most explicit assertions of the gospel ( Acts 3:11 ; Acts 5:12 ). It was associated with the grandest events in their national history; for it was reared on the substructions of Solomon's temple, which even to the present day are intact. The Lord walked there because it was winter, and wintry weather. This reveals a little touch of the hand of an eye-witness. We need not ask for any more transcendental explanation. The note of time, moreover, implies that two months had elapsed since the Feast of Tabernacles. Wieseler calculates that the Feast of Tabernacles closed on October 19, and the Feast of Dedication began on December 20, and, if so, time is left for a portion of the Galilaean ministry cited in Luke 10:1-42 .—13. Ezra 10:9-13 shows that the time referred to was after a period of heavy rain, and may account for Jesus walking in the shelter of the portico.