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Luke 2:41
Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Luke narrates Jesus' family journeying to Jerusalem annually for Passover, placing this routine between the account of Jesus' childhood development and His specific pilgrimage at age twelve.
The words — ἐπορεύοντο (eporeuonto) = were going, an iterative verb form indicating the parents' repeated annual travel to the city.
The thread — Exodus 12:14, Exodus 23:14, and Exodus 34:23 establish the feast as a permanent statute requiring pilgrimage, which Luke's narrative reflects in the family's yearly observance.
Why it lands — It records a historical pattern of religious observance before drawing inferences about devotion, asking the reader to note the family's consistent participation in mandated festivals.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Cross-references
- Exodus 12:14 And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- Exodus 23:14 Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- Exodus 34:23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
- Leviticus 23:5 The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Numbers 28:16 The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Deuteronomy 12:18 Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
- Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Deuteronomy 12:5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.