Luke 2:41

Jesus In The Temple At Twelve Years Old

⁴⁰ And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was with him. ⁴¹ And his father and mother went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of Easter. ⁴² And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after 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 offer Passover unto the LORD thy God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night:

1 Samuel 1:3

And the said man went out of his city every feastful day, to pray and to offer unto the LORD of Hosts: where the two sons of Eli - Hophni and Phinehas - were the LORD's priests.

John 2:13

And the Jews' Easter was even at hand; And Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Exodus 12:14

And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even throughout your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom forever.

Exodus 23:14-17

"Three feasts thou shalt hold unto me in a year.

Exodus 34:23

Thrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel:

Leviticus 23:5

The fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD's Passover.

Numbers 28:16

And the fourteenth day of the first month shall be Passover unto the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

but ye shall enquire the place which the LORD your God shall have chosen out of all your tribes to put his name there and there to dwell.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Therefore, when the LORD your God hath chosen a place to make his name dwell there, thither ye shall bring all that I command you: your burnt sacrifices and your offerings, your tithes and the heave offerings of your hands and all your godly vows which ye vow unto the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:18

but thou must eat them before the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen: both thou, thy son and thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hand to.

Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bread, in the feast of weeks and in the feast of the tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

1 Samuel 1:21

And Elkanah and all his house went up to offer unto the LORD, both the offerings due for the feast and also his vows.

John 6:4

And Easter, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.

John 11:55

And the Jews' Easter was nigh at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Easter to purify themselves.

John 13:1

Before the feast of Easter, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of this world unto the father; When he loved his which were in the world, unto the end he loved them;