Luke 2:19–27

¹⁹But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.↗

²⁰The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.↗

²¹When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.↗

²²When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord↗

²³(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),↗

²⁴and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”↗

²⁵Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.↗

²⁶It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.↗

²⁷He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,↗