Luke 2:21-23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Jesus Is Named

²¹ When the eighth day came, it was time to circumcise the child,^[a] and he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.^(A)

Jesus Is Presented in the Temple

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^{(B) 23} (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord”),^(C)