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
Now the Jewish passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:1
After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 6:4
(The passover, the Jewish festival, was at hand.)
Before
John 7:8
Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet."
John 12:1
Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).
To purify
John 2:6
Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.
Acts 24:18
and it was in presenting these that I was found within the temple. I was ceremonially pure, I was not mixed up in any mob or riot; no, the trouble was caused by some Jews from Asia,
1 Corinthians 11:28
Let a man test himself; then he can eat from the loaf and drink from the cup.
Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on defiled persons, give them a holiness that bears on bodily purity,
James 4:8
draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.