Luke 2:41

Jesus In The Temple At Twelve Years Old

⁴⁰ The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was on Him. ⁴¹ Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. ⁴² When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.

Feast of the Passover

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Jerusalem

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Moses

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.

1 Samuel 1:3

This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.

John 2:13

The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Exodus 12:14

“This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the Lord. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

Exodus 23:14-17

“Celebrate a festival in My honor three times a year.

Exodus 34:23

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Leviticus 23:5

The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

Numbers 28:16

“The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month.

Deuteronomy 12:5-7

Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:18

You must eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do,

Deuteronomy 16:16

“All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

1 Samuel 1:21

When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice and his vow offering to the Lord,

John 6:4

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

John 11:55

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

John 13:1

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.