Luke 2:19-29

19 But ¹Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.

20 And the shepherds returned, ²glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

21 And ³at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, ⁴he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Jesus Presented at the Temple

22 And ⁵when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem ⁶to present him to the Lord

23 (as it is written in ⁷the Law of the Lord, ⁸"Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord")

24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in ⁹the Law of the Lord, ¹⁰"a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."

25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was ¹¹righteous and ¹²devout, ¹³waiting for ¹⁴the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not ¹⁵see death before he had seen ¹⁶the Lord's Christ.

27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when ¹⁷the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,

28 he took him up in his arms and ¹⁸blessed God and said,

29 "Lord, now you are letting your servant^[a] depart ¹⁹in peace, ²⁰according to your word;