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 was nigh, the feast of the Jews.
Before
John 7:8
Do you go up to the feast; I go not up to this feast, because my time has not yet fully come.
John 12:1
THEN Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
To purify
John 2:6
And there were six stone water jars there, placed for the purification of the Jews, containing two or three metretes [16.75 or 25.125 gallons] each.
Acts 24:18
in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult,
1 Corinthians 11:28
But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup;
Hebrews 9:13
For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies to the purification of the flesh,
James 4:8
draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded.