Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
Parallel translations
- WEB His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
- KJV Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
- NKJV His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
- NASB His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
- NLT Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival.
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Quick answer
Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem every year for Passover. It matters because it shows the family's faithful observance of God's appointed feasts.
Overview
Luke records the family's annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Passover. Their consistent devotion to the festivals reflects godly piety. Jesus is raised within a faithful Israelite household, observing the feast that He Himself would one day fulfill as the true Passover Lamb.
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Cross-references · 16
- Deut 12:18Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
- Exod 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
- Exod 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- Deut 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Num 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Lev 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Exod 23:14–17Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- Deut 12:5–7Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- John 11:55Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
- John 2:13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- Deut 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deut 16:16Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- 1 Sam 1:3Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- John 6:4Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.
- 1 Sam 1:21Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
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