Luke 2:41

Jesus In The Temple At Twelve Years Old

⁴⁰ The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him. ⁴¹ Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. ⁴² And when He became twelve, they went up there according to the custom of the Feast;

Feast of the Passover

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Jerusalem

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Moses

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

1 Samuel 1:3

Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the Lord there.

John 2:13

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Exodus 12:14

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.

Exodus 23:14-17

“Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

Exodus 34:23

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Leviticus 23:5

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.

Numbers 28:16

‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Lord’s Passover.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then it shall come about that the place in which the Lord your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:18

But you shall eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all your undertakings.

Deuteronomy 16:16

“Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.

1 Samuel 1:21

Then the man Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.

John 6:4

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

John 11:55

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.

John 13:1

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.