Luke 2:41

Jesus In The Temple At Twelve Years Old

⁴⁰ And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him. ⁴¹ Now Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem every year for the feast of the Passover. ⁴² When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

Feast of the Passover

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Deuteronomy 16:1-8

Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.

1 Samuel 1:3

Year after year this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord's priests.

John 2:13

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Exodus 12:14

This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord -- you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

Exodus 23:14-17

"Three times in the year you must make a pilgrim feast to me.

Exodus 34:23

At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Leviticus 23:5

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the Lord.

Numbers 28:16

"'On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Lord's Passover.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

Deuteronomy 12:11

Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you -- your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.

Deuteronomy 12:18

Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor.

Deuteronomy 16:16

Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.

1 Samuel 1:21

This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,

John 6:4

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)

John 11:55

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

John 13:1

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.