Luke 2:41

Jesus In The Temple At Twelve Years Old

⁴⁰ And the child was growing and becoming strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him. ⁴¹ And his parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. ⁴² And when he was twelve years [old], they went up according to the custom of the feast.

Feast of the Passover

Israel

Jerusalem

Jesus

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Moses

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep [the] Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt [by] night.

1 Samuel 1:3

Now this man used to go up from his town {year by year} to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh, {where} the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] priests to Yahweh.

John 2:13

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

Exodus 12:14

"And this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute.

Exodus 23:14-17

" 'Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me

Exodus 34:23

Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel,

Leviticus 23:5

In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month at the evening [is] Yahweh's Passover.

Numbers 28:16

" 'On the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the Passover for Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

{But only} to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all [of] your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.

Deuteronomy 12:11

{and then} [at] the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all [the things] I [am] commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and {your donations}, and all [of] the choice [things], your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 12:18

But only {before} Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who [is] in your {towns}, and you must rejoice {before} your God {in all your undertakings}.

Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times in the year all [of] your males shall appear {before } Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear {before Yahweh} empty-handed.

1 Samuel 1:21

So the man Elkanah went up with all his household {to make the annual sacrifice} to Yahweh and [to 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 from the [surrounding] country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves.

John 13:1

Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, [and] having loved [his] own in the world, loved them to the end.