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Hey, friends, welcome to a special broadcast today on the line of fire.

I'm not taking phone calls because I've got a whole bunch of questions that were submitted

in advance on Twitter and on Facebook,

raising all kinds of interesting questions about the biblical text,

about the biblical languages, about specific verses.

So we're going to dive in together.

I think you're going to find this edifying, informative, and enjoyable,

but no calls today. I'm going to

start over on Twitter, and James asked this, did Jesus go up to Jerusalem three times a year

to observe the feast per Exodus 23? If not, why not? Now, when I saw the question from James, I remember that we've

interacted some off of Twitter, just in different email correspondences. James is a researcher

and a scholar himself. So there's obviously more to the question in terms of why he's asking it.

We only have Luke 2 that tells us specifically that Jesus as a boy was with his parents

and part of a caravan of Jewish people coming into and out of Jerusalem for the Passover.

We know in John 10 there's a reference to him being in the city for the

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