Luke 2:41
And his parents went every year to Jerusalem, at the solemn day of the pasch,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
In Context
40And the child grew, and waxed strong, full of wisdom; and the grace of God was in him.
Cross References
Exodus 12:14And this day shall be for a memorial to you: and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting observance.
Exodus 34:23Three times in a year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty Lord the God of Israel.
Numbers 28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,
Deuteronomy 12:11In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.
1 Samuel 1:3And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Luke 2:26-41
Christ and Simeon in the Temple; Anna in the Temple. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his… Read the whole commentary →