Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
Bible References
Passover
John 2:13
And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:1
AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 6:4
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
Before
John 7:8
Go ye up to this feast: for I am not yet going up to this feast, because my fixed time is not yet arrived.
John 12:1
JESUS then before the days of the passover came to Bethany, where the deceased Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead.
To purify
John 2:6
Now there stood there six large stone jars, for the customary purifying ablution of the Jews, containing two or three baths each.
Acts 24:18
In the discharge of which offices certain Jews of Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a multitude, nor with any tumult.
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth to corporal purification,
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Make clean your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.