Dale Partridge - December 16, 2025


Christians and Hanukkah？ 


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1 minute

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168.38797

Word count

250

Sentence count

21

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Hate speech

6

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Many claim Christians can support Hanukkah because Jesus celebrated it in John 10:22-23, but is that true? Is it possible for Christians to support this holiday because Jesus was present in the temple during the feast?

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00:00:00.000 Can Christians support Hanukkah? No, and here's why. Many claim Christians can support this 1.00
00:00:05.140 holiday because Jesus celebrated it in John 10, 22 through 23. But is that true? No. Historically,
00:00:12.140 Hanukkah was the Feast of Dedication, an eight-day commemoration of the temple being reclaimed and
00:00:16.820 rededicated under Judas Maccabeus in 164 BC. It celebrated the purification of a physical building.
00:00:23.720 Jesus did not celebrate Hanukkah. John simply says that he was present in the temple during the
00:00:28.820 feast. Scripture is explicit when Jesus does observe feasts that were commanded by the law
00:00:33.880 because Jesus came to fulfill the law. Hanukkah was not one of those feasts. More importantly,
00:00:39.460 Jesus viewed himself as the temple. He said, destroy this temple, and in three days I will
00:00:44.920 raise it up. Now, the Jews believed that he was speaking of the Jerusalem temple,
00:00:49.020 but as John 2.21 says, he was speaking about the temple of his body. However, he did prophesy the
00:00:55.000 destruction of the temple in Matthew 24, which then occurred in AD 70 as a judgment on Israel
00:01:01.140 for rejecting their Messiah. So why does this matter? Because Jesus is the true temple. To
00:01:07.140 celebrate the dedication of a temple that Christ replaced and judged is theologically incoherent. 0.95
00:01:12.960 Even more directly, the Jews who celebrate Hanukkah reject Christ. And John says, 0.82
00:01:17.880 no one who denies the son has the father. So Hanukkah celebrates a temple without Christ. 0.63
00:01:24.280 Christianity confesses Christ as the true temple. 0.98
00:01:27.620 The two are not compatible. 0.96