After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
The feast of the Jews ... is the reading of many ancient manuscripts (English Revised Version, margin), which, if allowed, would make this almost certainly the Passover.  Without further attention to the extensive arguments of scholars on this, we shall construe it as a reference to the Passover, primarily because this would favor the longer ministry of Christ, and because it was the only feast of the Jews having sufficient importance to have demanded the presence of Jesus so soon after he had left Judaea. It is considered no great difficulty that John would have called so important a feast "a feast," since, writing so long afterward, he might quite accurately have so described it.  The most convincing argument to this writer is by Trench: