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What custom did Jesus’s parents observe?
Luke: “His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover” ([ii, 41]).
The preceding verse ([40]) shows that Luke means every year following the birth of Jesus. In the succeeding verse ([42]) it is clearly implied that Jesus always accompanied them. It is impossible to reconcile this statement of Luke, who evidently knows nothing of the enmity of Herod and Archelaus, with the statements of Matthew who declares them to have been his mortal enemies.