“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;”
When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord — the purification rites of Leviticus 12 required the mother's ritual cleansing after childbirth: forty days after the birth of a son. The presentation in Jerusalem is the second Temple-law observance in two verses — Luke emphasizes Jesus' full integration into the covenant people's liturgical life from infancy. The Law of Moses that Jesus will later clarify and fulfill is the same law by which his parents present him in the temple.
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