Luke 2:42

New Living Translation

When Jesus was twelve years old, they attended the festival as usual.

Cross References

Exodus 23:17

At these three times each year, every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the Lord.

Luke 2:41

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover festival.

Luke 2:43

After the celebration was over, they started home to Nazareth, but Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents didn’t miss him at first,

Luke 4:16

When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.

John 4:45

Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he did there.