Luke 2:41
Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover festival.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
In Context
40As Jesus grew up, he became strong and very wise, and God was very pleased with him.
42So when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem as they always did.
Cross References
Exodus 12:14Each year, you must celebrate this festival on this day, to remember what I, Yahweh, have done for you. In all the generations to come, each year you must celebrate this festival. It must continue forever.
Exodus 34:23Three times each year all the men must come to worship me, Yahweh, the God of the Israeli people.
Numbers 28:16“The Passover Festival must be celebrated to honor me each year on the fourteenth day of the first month of each year.
Deuteronomy 12:11“Yahweh will choose one place where he wants you to worship him. That is the place to which you must bring all the offerings that I command you to bring: The sacrifices that must be completely burned on the altar, your other sacrifices, other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, ◄your tithes/ten percent of all your crops►, and all the special offerings that you will solemnly promise to give to Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 16:1“ Each year honor Yahweh our God by celebrating the Passover Festival in the month of Abib in early spring. It was on a night in that month that Yahweh rescued your ancestors from Egypt.
1 Samuel 1:3Once every year Elkanah went up with his family from Ramah to Shiloh city. He went there to worship Yahweh, the commander of the armies of angels, and to offer sacrifices to him. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, helped their father to do the work as priests of Yahweh 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 →