It is said by those who are learned in the Jewish writings, that till a child was of this age he was not obliged by the law to go. We have in Scripture nothing to ascertain us in the case; it is certain that our Saviour went at this age, after the custom of the feast, that is, so as to be there about the fourteenth day of the month Nisan.
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Luke 2:42
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.