When Jesus was twelve years old, they went to the festival as they always did.
Every Israelite male is to come before the Lord God at these three times every year.
Jesus' parents traveled to Jerusalem every year for the Passover festival.
When the festival had finished and it was time to return home, the boy Jesus remained in Jerusalem, but his parents didn't realize this.
When he arrived in Nazareth, where he had grown up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day as usual.
But when he arrived in Galilee, the people welcomed him, because they had also been at the Passover feast and had seen everything he'd done in Jerusalem.