'Festival' in the Bible

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

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

When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.

When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was drawing near.

Then the day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.

[For according to the festival he had to release someone to them.]

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, because My time has not yet fully come.”

After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

At length, on the day of the Harvest Festival, they had all met in one place;

When he saw how this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

After the Festival of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and days later we joined them in Troas and stayed there for seven days.

For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend much time in the province of Asia; since he was very desirous of being in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of the Harvest Festival.

So let's keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

I shall remain in Ephesus, however, until the time of the Harvest Festival,

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.