John 7:14

Now about the midst of the feast ,.... About the fourth day of it, for it lasted eight days; this might be on the sabbath day, which sometimes was בתוך החג , "in the middle of the feast" F14 Misa. Succa, c. 5. sect. 5. ; and the rather, since it follows,

Jesus went up into the temple ; as the Lord and proprietor of it, and as was his usual method; he had for some reasons kept himself retired till now, and now he appeared publicly:

and taught the people his doctrine; he expounded the Scriptures, gave the true sense of them, and instructed the people out of them.