“And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.”
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth — the return to Nazareth completes the Jerusalem sequence. Luke compresses what Matthew's account expands (the flight to Egypt and return). The everything required by the Law of the Lord is the summary evaluation of the temple visit: full Torah compliance by the family of the one who has come to fulfill the law.
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