{"id":25424,"date":"2011-01-06T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=25424"},"modified":"2020-08-27T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T02:43:17","slug":"how-many-passovers-did-jesus-attend-during-his-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-many-passovers-did-jesus-attend-during-his-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Passovers did Jesus attend during his ministry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Some say that Jesus attended three Passovers during his ministry and by that try to determine long He preached His gospel. I&#8217;ve heard that there may have been four Passovers, thus making His preaching career longer than 3 1\/2 years. The possible fourth Passover, I believe is in the Gospel of Luke?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Jesus is specifically mentioned attending the following Passover feasts after his baptism:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>John 2:13<\/li>\n<li>John 5:1 &#8211; There are three feasts that all Jewish men are required to attend: the Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16:16). John doesn\u2019t record which feast is being attended, but some of the early manuscripts use a \u201cthe\u201d in front of the word &#8220;feast&#8221; leading scholars to conclude that it was probably the Passover feast. Of all the possibilities, the Passover feast fits best with the available evidence.<\/li>\n<li>John 6:4 &#8211; This is the one feast where Jesus isn&#8217;t directly mentioned as being in Jerusalem.<\/li>\n<li>John 19:14 &#8211; Jesus dies on the preparation day of the Passover.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Matthew, Mark, and Luke only mention the final Passover. Luke 2:41 mentions that in his childhood he went to Jerusalem every year for the Passover. To get three and a half years with the final point being the Passover, there had to be a total of four Passovers mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Some say that Jesus attended three Passovers during his ministry and by that try to determine long He preached His gospel. I&#8217;ve heard that there may have been four Passovers, thus making His preaching career longer than 3 1\/2 years. The possible fourth Passover, I believe is in the Gospel of Luke? Answer: Jesus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[606,73],"class_list":["post-25424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-gospels","tag-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50234,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/jewish-feasts-and-festivals\/","url_meta":{"origin":25424,"position":0},"title":"Jewish Feasts and Festivals","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Kyle Campbell via\u00a0Truth Magazine In order to fully understand the Jewish religion and people, and to gain a greater perspective of a number of events in the New Testament, one needs to study the Jewish feasts and festivals. 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