'Festival' in the Bible
While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.
When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.
Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.
Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.
Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."
But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.
The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"
Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began teaching.
On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"
The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.
Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.
Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Festival (131 instances)
- Festivity (1 instance)