Reformed Anglicans

  10 September   32 A.D. Jesus secretly attends the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem (St. John’s Gospel, chapter 7). The back-story. The families would arrive in the storied city of Davidic kings.   They would make “booths” or “huts” of tree boughs, branches and palms.   They would live there for a week (Lev.23.-35-43). Psalms were sung. As John 7 records, Jesus went up secretly to Jerusalem to avoid the developing assassination plots on his life. A slight digression. Of note, a wonderful Greek verb emerges, to wit, that Jesus Himself was the “tabernacle” according to John 1.14. It’s rich and John does not miss the point.   Jesus “tabernacle” or “tented” amongst us. For those who read Greek: Κα ὶ ὁ λ ό γος σ ὰ ρξ ἐ γ έ νετο κα ὶ ἐ σκ ή νωσεν ἐ ν ἡ μ ῖ ν, κα ὶ ἐ θεασ ά μεθα τ ὴ ν δ ό ξαν α ὐ το ῦ , δ ό ξαν ὡ ς μονογενο ῦ ς παρ ὰ πατρ ό ς, πλ ή ρης χ ά ριτος κα ὶ ἀ ληθε ί ας. “14  And the Word became flesh and dwel...