Luke 2:41
Jesus' parents traveled to Jerusalem every year for the Passover festival.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
In Context
40The child grew strong, and was very wise. God's blessing was with him.
42When Jesus was twelve years old, they went to the festival as they always did.
Cross References
Exodus 12:14This will be a day to remember for you. You are to celebrate it as a festival to the Lord for generations to come. You will observe this for all time to come.
Exodus 34:23Three times every year all your males must appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Numbers 28:16The Lord's Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Deuteronomy 12:11then the Lord your God will choose a place where he will live with you. That's where you are to bring all that I've ordered you—your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and freewill offerings, and all the special gifts that you promise to give to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 16:1You are to observe the month of Abib and to celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because it was in the month of Abib that the Lord your God led you out of Egypt by night.
1 Samuel 1:3Every year Elkanah would leave his town and go to worship and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh, where Eli's two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord's priests.
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 →