When the days for their purification in terms of the Mosaic law had elapsed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Every year his parents used to travel to Jerusalem at the passover festival;

After spending the full number of days they came back, but the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know of this;

Then, as they failed to find him, they came back to Jerusalem in search of him.

Then he brought him to Jerusalem and placing him on the pinnacle of the temple said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from this;

One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.

who appeared in a vision of glory and said he must go through with his death and departure at Jerusalem.

As the time for his assumption was now due, he set his face for the journey to Jerusalem.

but the people would not receive him because his face was turned in the direction of Jerusalem.

Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.

Or those eighteen men killed by the fall of the tower at Siloam? do you think they were worse offenders than the rest of the residents in Jerusalem?

On he went, teaching from one town and village to another, as he made his way to Jerusalem.

But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

He went on to tell a parable in their hearing, as he was approaching Jerusalem and as they imagined God's Reign would instantly come into view.

With these words he went forward on his way up to Jerusalem.

But whenever you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then be sure her desolation is not far away.

they will fall by the edge of the sword, they will be carried prisoners to all nations, and Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles till the period of the Gentiles expires.

and ascertaining that he came under the jurisdiction of Herod, he remitted him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem during those days.

but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children!

That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.

and one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, "Are you a lone stranger in Jerusalem, not to know what has been happening there?"

So they got up and returned that very hour to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven and their friends all gathered,

and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

They [worshipped him and] returned with great joy to Jerusalem,