When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.
Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.
After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but His parents did not know it.
He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.