Luke 2:42

And when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast day.

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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 father and mother went each year into Jerusalem, in the solemn day of pask. (And his father and mother went each year to Jerusalem, for the Feast Day, or the Festival, of Passover.)

43And when the days were done, they turned again (or they returned home); and the child abode in Jerusalem, and his father and mother knew it not.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:17(So) Thrice in the year all thy male kind shall appear before thy Lord God.

John 4:45Therefore when he came into Galilee, men of Galilee received him, when they had seen all (the) things that he had done in Jerusalem in the feast day (or for they had seen all the things that he had done in Jerusalem on the Feast Day, or at the Festival); for also they had come to the feast day.

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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