While I do believe that John 10:22-23 is a reference to Jesus celebrating Hanukkah, the following from Anglican Bishop John Cosin from 1657 attempts to call this into question (reproduced for those curious as to how 17th-century Anglican would respond to Catholics who used this as evidence for the canonicity of 1 Maccabees):
But Lastly, for the Canonizing of
the Maccabees they produce S. John’s Testimony—And it was at
Jerusalem the Feast of the Dedication, which, they say, referreth to 1 Mac.
4.59. Yet first, here is no place of that Book quoted; and Secondly,
they had a Feast of Dedication instituted by Ezra, which might
then be kept at Jerusalem; but be it understood of the Feast that
Judas Maccabeus and his Brethren ordained for the dedication of
the Sanctuary which Antiochus and his Souldiers had profaned, the
best they can be made of it, is no more than the specifying of a Time which
the Jews then observed, and wherat Christ took occasion to preach
and manifest his doctrine to them the more publickly; but what makes this either
to the Citing of the Booke, or to the Adding of any Canonical
Authoritie thereunto? The Jews are said to observe that Feast of
Dedication at this day, and yet they do not acknowledge the Books of
the Maccabes to be Canonical Scripture, no more now, than they
did in S. John’s time, who whether he referred to that Maccabean
Dedication or no, is uncertain; but however, to this purpose he mentioned
it not; which is the Confession of P. Cotton the Jesuite himself.
(John Cosin, A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture, or the
Certains and in Dubitate Books Therefore as They are Received in the Church of
England [1657], 26-27)
