Luke 2:42 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴²And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

Luke 2:42 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 41-52)

We have here the only passage of story recorded concerning our blessed Saviour, from his infancy to the day of his showing to Israel at twenty-nine years old, and therefore we are concerned to make much of this, for it is in vain to wish we had more. Here is, I. Christ’s going up with his parents to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover, Luke 2:41, 42. 1. It was their constant practice to attend…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 42)

42. went up--“were wont to go.” Though males only were required to go up to Jerusalem at the three annual festivals (Ex 23:14-17), devout women, when family duties permitted, went also, as did Hannah (1Sa 1:7), and, as we here see, the mother of Jesus. when twelve years old--At this age every Jewish boy was styled “a son of the law,” being put under a course of instruction and trained to fasting a…