How old was Jesus when Mary and Joseph brought him to Jerusalem for passover?

A:In Luke's Gospel, Jesus was taken from Galilee to Jerusalem each year after the year of his birth, for the Passover (Luke 2:41). When he was twelve years old, he was discovered in the Temple discussing religion with the elders.

In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus was taken to Egypt out of fear of King Herod. During the several years they remained there it was not possible to take Jesus to Jerusalem because of the continuing danger. After the death of Herod, the family began the return jouney to their home in Bethlehem but Joseph was warned in a dream that Herod's son and successor, Archelaus, would be a further danger, so they turned aside and travelled to the relative safety of Galilee and settled in a city called Nazareth (Matthew 2:22-23). During the ten year reign of Archelaus, the family would not have gone to Jerusalem. In this story, Jesus must have been at least in his teens before he first went to Jerusalem.