Luke 2:41
And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
In Context
42And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast;
Cross References
Exodus 12:14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
Exodus 34:23Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Numbers 28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Jehovah’s passover.
Deuteronomy 12:11then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Jehovah thy God; for in the month of Abib Jehovah thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
1 Samuel 1:3And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were there.
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 →