When Jesus was 12 years old, they went up to the feast as usual.
“Three times a year all your men must come to worship me. I am your Lord and King.
Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover Feast.
After the feast was over, his parents left to go back home. The boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But they were not aware of it.
Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue as he usually did. He stood up to read.
When he arrived in Galilee, the people living there welcomed him. They had seen everything he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast. That was because they had also been there.