Luke 2:41

Luke 2:41 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
• New International Version (NIV)Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
• New King James Version (NKJV)His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

Context of Luke 2:41

39When Jesus’ parents had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40And the Child grew and became strong. He was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him. Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast. 43When those days were over and they were returning home, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware He had stayed.

Luke 2:41 word by word

Καὶ ἐπορεύοντο οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ κατ᾽ ἔτος εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ τῇ ἑορτῇ τοῦ πάσχα.¶Read the interlinear

• ·καίkai · andG2532
• Everyκατάkata · according toG2596
• yearἔτοςetos · yearG2094
• Hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• parentsγονεύςgoneus · parentG1118
• wentπορεύωporeuomai · to travelG4198
• toεἰςeis · towardG1519
• JerusalemἹερουσαλήμHierousalēm · JerusalemG2419
• Feastἑορτήheortē · festivalG1859
• Passoverπάσχαpascha · Passover lambG3957

Cross-references for Luke 2:41

• Exodus 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
• Exodus 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
• Deuteronomy 12:5Instead, 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 16:1Observe 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.
• 1 Samuel 1:3Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
• Exodus 12:14And 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.
• Leviticus 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
• Numbers 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
• John 2:13When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
• John 6:4Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.
• John 11:55Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
• John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

Commentaries on Luke 2:41

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 41His 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 41-52Verses 41-52 It is for the honour of Christ that children should attend on public worship. His parents did not return till they had stayed all the seven days of the feast. It is well to stay to the end of an ordinance, as becomes those who say, It is good to be here. Those that have lost their comforts in Christ, and the evidences of their having a part in him, must bethink themselves where, and when, and how they lost them, and must turn back again…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 41The Jewish Passover feast celebrates God's deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt. It was one of three major annual feasts required for Jewish men to attend (Exodus 23:14–17; Deuteronomy 16:16). The family of Jesus faithfully followed God’s law and practiced their faith.Read the comment

Topics related to Luke 2:41

• Feasts
• Jerusalem
• Jesus, the Christ
• Passover

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Commentaries on Luke 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings