CCC 583

Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth.³⁴⁹ Lk 2:22-39. At the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business.³⁵⁰ Cf. Lk 2 46-49. He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover.³⁵¹ Cf. Lk 2 41. His public ministry itself was patterned by his pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the great Jewish feasts.³⁵² Cf. Jn 2 13-14; 5:1, 14; 7:1, 10, 14; 8 2; 10:22-23.