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Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,
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Shim`on took him in his arms, made a b'rakhah to God, and said,
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"Now, ADONAI, according to your word, your servant is at peace as you let him go;
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for I have seen with my own eyes your yeshu`ah,
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which you prepared in the presence of all peoples --
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a light that will bring revelation to the Goyim and glory to your people Isra'el."
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Yeshua's father and mother were marvelling at the things Shim`on was saying about him.
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Shim`on blessed them and said to the child's mother, Miryam, "This child will cause many in Isra'el to fall and to rise, he will become a sign whom people will speak against;
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moreover, a sword will pierce your own heart too. All this will happen in order to reveal many people's inmost thoughts."
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There was also a prophet named Hannah Bat-P'nu'el, of the tribe of Asher. She was a very old woman -- she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage
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and had remained a widow ever since; now she was eighty-four. She never left the Temple grounds but worshipped there night and day, fasting and praying.