Buns, Cross, Hot on (edited)

On Hot Cross Buns

Buns, cross, hot on the heels of Christmas fruit pies.

January 2026 arrived local supermarket

Jesus at The Hanukkah (edited)

The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out (John 1:5 CEV).

In a long ago winter, during one Hanukkah*, Jesus was again recorded in the Temple. (He may well have been to many Jerusalem Hanukkah celebrations, as to the other recurring events in his culture.) John here gives us a note of the chronology of Jesus' life. In chapter 7 we see Jesus in Jerusalem even when the climate had become very threatening. He had been there (approximately in October) for the celebration called Booths (Tabernacles). Enmity against Jesus reached a peak with official action being by taken primarily by the elite, "the Jews", and their followers.