27And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
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While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-40)Even when he humbles himself, still Christ has honour done him to balance the offence of it. That we might not be stumbled at the meanness of his birth, angels then did him honour; and now, that we may not be offended at his being presented in the temple, like other children born in sin, and without any manner of solemnity peculiar to him, but silently, and in the crowd of other children, Simeon a…
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