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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for John 7:53.
John 7:53
Excerpted from: John 7:37 Examined (Part 1)How about that? That is what you do at the end of a day, don't you? We have services here, and at the end of the day we go to our own house. I am staying in 720, and you are in another one, but right here that is my house. Well, that is what those people did. Many, many of the people there were living in their own homes in Jerusalem, and then there were maybe tens of thousands of others who were living in a booth.
After what Jesus said there on the 7th day of the Feast of Tabernacles, everyone went to his own house. He was done preaching.
John 7:53
Excerpted from: John 7:37 Examined (Part 2)At the close of Part 1 we had just started into John 7:53 to about John 8:1-2. We saw in John 7:53 that, "Everyone went to his own house." Probably those in Jerusalem began breaking down their booths. They were to stay in them seven days, and then break them up, and return to their own houses. That is why is says, "Everyone returned to his own house." "So then, Jesus went to the Mount of Olives" [John 8:1]. And then John 8:2 says:
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