Now it was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles [Note: This was also called "Festival of Shelters," and was one of three principal, annual Jewish festivals and commemorated the occasion of the Israelites living in tents or shelters during their forty year wandering in the desert].

Then the Jews said to him, Forty-six years was this temple being built, and will you raise it in three days?

Philip answered Him, "Forty dollars' worth of bread is not enough to give them all even a scanty meal apiece."