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The Presentation in the Temple

21 After eight days passed, when the child was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

22 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. 23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn[a] male will be called holy to the Lord.”)[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:23 Literally who opens the womb
  2. Luke 2:23 Exodus 13:2,12,15