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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.
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She came by at that moment and began thanking God and speaking about the child to everyone who was waiting for Yerushalayim to be liberated.
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When Yosef and Miryam had finished doing everything required by the Torah of ADONAI, they returned to the Galil, to their town Natzeret.
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The child grew and became strong and filled with wisdom -- God's favor was upon him.
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Every year Yeshua's parents went to Yerushalayim for the festival of Pesach.
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When he was twelve years old, they went up for the festival, as custom required.
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But after the festival was over, when his parents returned, Yeshua remained in Yerushalayim. They didn't realize this;
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supposing that he was somewhere in the caravan, they spent a whole day on the road before they began searching for him among their relatives and friends.