Bible Verses About Jerusalem: Annual feasts kept at

Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the LORD’s name.

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

After these things, Yeshua was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Judeans sought to kill him.

Now the Jewish festival, the Feast of Sukkot, was at hand.

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Yeshua therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

The Judeans therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Judeans.

But when it was now the midst of the feast, Yeshua went up into the temple and taught.