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 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 He went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover. 351 His public Ministry itself was patterned by his pilgrImages to Jerusalem for the great Jewish feasts. 352