English Standard Version

Luke 2:18-23 English Standard Version (ESV)

18. And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.

19. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.

20. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

21. And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

22. And 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

23. (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)