Luke 2:42

AND when he was a son of twelve years, they went up, as they were used, to the festival.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

41And his relatives every year went unto Urishlem at the feast of Petscha.

43And when the days (were) fulfilled, they returned. But Jeshu, the child, remained in Urishlem, and Jauseph and his mother knew not.

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Cross References

John 4:45But when he came to Galila, the Galiloyee received him, because they had seen all the signs which he had done in Urishlem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.

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 →

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