The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
- BSB When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- NKJV Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- NASB The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- NLT It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
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- Luke 2:41His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
- John 11:55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
- John 2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
- Exod 12:6–14and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- John 5:1After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- John 6:4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
- Num 28:16–25“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Deut 16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
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