Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Perhaps it will bear fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

First they led Him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught large numbers. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Now I am giving an opinion on this because it is profitable for you, who a year ago began not only to do something but also to desire it.

For I know your eagerness, and I brag about you to the Macedonians: “Achaia has been prepared since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race.