Luke 2:41

Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem every year for Passover. It matters because it shows the family's faithful observance of God's appointed feasts.

Cross-references · 16

• Deut 12:18but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
• Exod 34:23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• Exod 12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
• 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.
• Num 28:16“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh’s Passover.
• Lev 23:5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
• Exod 23:14–17“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
• Deut 12:5–7But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
• 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 2:13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• Deut 12:11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
• 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.
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• 1 Sam 1:3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
• John 6:4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
• 1 Sam 1:21The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

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