When<n id="1" /> he was twelve years old,<n id="2" /> they went up<n id="3" /> according to custom.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Jesus<n id="1" /> had said this, he continued on ahead,<n id="2" /> going up to Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

&#8220;Two men went up<n id="1" /> to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee<n id="2" /> and the other a tax collector.<n id="3" />

So<n id="1" /> he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree<n id="2" /> to see him, because Jesus<n id="3" /> was going to pass that way.

Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;Why are you frightened,<n id="2" /> and why do doubts<n id="3" /> arise in your hearts?

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> about eight days<n id="2" /> after these sayings, Jesus<n id="3" /> took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

So<n id="1" /> Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth<n id="2" /> in Galilee to Judea, to the city<n id="3" /> of David called Bethlehem,<n id="4" /> because he was of the house<n id="5" /> and family line<n id="6" /> of David.

But<n id="1" /> since they found<n id="2" /> no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof<n id="3" /> and let him down on the stretcher<n id="4" /> through the roof tiles<n id="5" /> right<n id="6" /> in front of Jesus.<n id="7" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> took the twelve aside and said to them, &#8220;Look, we are going up to Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.<n id="4" />