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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

孩童耶穌上耶路撒冷過節每年逾越節，他父母都上耶路撒冷去。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
每 年 到 逾 越 节 ， 他 父 母 就 上 耶 路 撒 冷 去 。

Contextual Overview

⁴¹ Every year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover Feast. ⁴² When he was twelve years old, they went to the feast as they always did. ⁴³ After the feast days were over, they started home. The boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. ⁴⁴ Thinking that Jesus was with them in the group, they traveled for a whole day. Then they began to look for him among their family and friends. ⁴⁵ When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him there. ⁴⁶ After three days they found Jesus sitting in the Temple with the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. ⁴⁷ All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and answers. ⁴⁸ When Jesus' parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, "Son, why did you do this to us? Your father and I were very worried about you and have been looking for you." ⁴⁹ Jesus said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?" ⁵⁰ But they did not understand the meaning of what he said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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went: Exodus 23:14-17, Exodus 34:23, Deuteronomy 12:5-7, Deuteronomy 12:11, Deuteronomy 12:18, Deuteronomy 16:1-8, Deuteronomy 16:16, 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 1:21

the: Exodus 12:14, Leviticus 23:5, Numbers 28:16, John 2:13, John 6:4, John 11:55, John 13:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:22 - then Luke 2:27 - the parents

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year,.... Joseph was obliged to go three times a year, as were all the males in Israel, at the feasts of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles,

Deuteronomy 16:16. The first of these is expressed here, at the feast of the passover; but the women were not obliged to go up: for so it is said by the Jews p, פסחן של נשים רשות, "the passover of women is voluntary", or in their own power; they might go up to the feast, or not, as they pleased. It is indeed said of Hillell, who was now alive, that he obliged the women to the first, but not to a second passover: to which the Karaites object; the account they give is as follows q;

"truly the women were obliged, by the school of Hillell, to the offering of the passover; but if they were hindered from the first passover, the second was in their power; that is, the thing depended upon their will and pleasure, whether they would offer or not, which may be justly wondered at; for why should they be obliged to the, first, and not the second? for behold, as to the obligation of the passover, there is no difference between the first passover, and the second, The sum of the matter is, our wise men, on whom be peace, have determined and say, that there is no obligation but to males, who are arrived to maturity.''

So that this was a voluntary thing in Mary; which discovers her piety and religion, and her great regard to the ordinances and appointments of God.

p T. Hieros. Kiddushin, fol. 61. 3. q Eliahu Adderet, p. 39. apud Trigland. de Sect. Karaeorum, p. 28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 41. 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.