When their purification period under the Law of Moses was over, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

His parents used to go to Jerusalem every year at the Passover Festival.

When they started back the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents' knowledge.

As they could not find him, they went back to Jerusalem in search of him.

And he took him to Jerusalem, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from here,

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

and they appeared in glory and spoke of his departure which he was to go through with at Jerusalem.

As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,

And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem.

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

Or those eighteen people at Siloam who were killed when the tower fell upon them??o you think they were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

So he went about among the towns and villages, teaching and making his way toward Jerusalem.

But I must go on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not right for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem.'

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

It happened that, on his way to Jerusalem, he passed through Samaria and Galilee.

And he took the Twelve aside and said to them, "See! we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written in the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to give them an illustration, because he was near Jerusalem and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was immediately going to appear.

With these words he went on ahead of them, on his way to Jerusalem.

But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then you must understand that her devastation is at hand.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.

and learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he turned him over to Herod, for Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children,

That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

and one of them named Cleopas said to him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know what has happened there lately?"

And they got up immediately and went back to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and their party all together,

You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

And they went back with great joy to Jerusalem,