“Now the Maccabees returned to Jerusalem............which he dedicated on the twenty-fifth of the month of Kislev, in the year 3622 (139 BCE).”
Ummmm, I think BCE is the “politically correct” way of saying B.C., i.e., it means “Before the Christian Era”, hence 139 years before Christ.
Oops - didn’t end my thought - so yeah, He did and I believe when He made His statement about being the “Light of the World”, He did it during the Hanukkah festival.