Matthew Poole and continuators on John 7:2

2 Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand .

The Feast of Tabernacles was a Feast which God ordained the Iews to keep the fifteeenth day of the seventh month (which some make to answer our September, others our October) Lev. 23.34, 39. after they had gathered in the Fruits of the Land. It was to be kept seven days, the first and last of which days were to be kept as Sabbaths; they were all the seven days to dwell in Tents or Booths, in remembrance of the forty years they so dwelt in the Wilderness, passing from Egypt to Canaan, as we read there, v. 43. Now this Festival was near at hand; so as we must understand the things following to have happened about the September or October before Christs Suffering, which was at the next Passover ▪ that is, the March or April following, as we count the Months.

Marginal references: Lev. 23.33, 34.