Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.
And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.
His parents went - every year - This was their constant custom, because positively enjoined by the law, Exodus 23:17. But it does not appear that infants were obliged to be present; and yet all the men-children are positively ordered to make their appearance at Jerusalem thrice in the year, Exodus 34:23. And our Lord, being now twelve years old, Luke 2:42, accompanies his parents to the feast. Probably this was the very age at which the male children were obliged to appear before the Lord at the three public festivals - the feast of unleavened bread, of weeks, and of tabernacles. According to the Jewish canons, it was the age at which they were obliged to begin to learn a trade.