What was the relationship between Judas Maccabeus and Jesus?
Judas Maccabeus established the feast of the Dedication of the Temple. Centuries later, Jesus was in the Temple during that feast. 1 Maccabees 4:59; John 10:22-23
What the Bible says
1 Maccabees 4:59
And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Israel decreed, that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season from year to year for eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, with joy and gladness.
John 10:22
And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
What the Church teaches
The Catechism recalls that Jesus went up to the Temple for the great Jewish feasts, and it quotes the passage about the feast of the Dedication (John 10:22-23).
Catechism 583 · Catechism of the Catholic Church
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