Luke 2:42
So when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem as they always did.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
In Context
41Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover festival.
Cross References
Exodus 23:17Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
John 4:45However, when we arrived in Galilee district, many of the people there welcomed him, because they had been in Jerusalem during the Passover celebration and had seen all the things he did there.
Matthew Henry on Luke 2:42-52
Christ Sitting with the Doctors. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found him not,… Read the whole commentary →