Luke 2:16-24

New International Version

¹⁶ So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.^{(A) 17} When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, ¹⁸ and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. ¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.^{(B) 20} The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God^(C) for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

²¹ On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child,^(D) he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived.^(E)

Jesus Presented in the Temple

²² When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses,^(F) Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord ²³ (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”^[a]),^{(G) 24} and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”^[b](H)