17. When they saw the child, they repeated what they had been told about him.
18. Everyone who heard the shepherds’ story was amazed.
19. Mary treasured all these things in her heart and always thought about them.
20. As the shepherds returned to their flock, they glorified and praised God for everything they had seen and heard. Everything happened the way the angel had told them.
21. Eight days after his birth, the child was circumcised and named Jesus. This was the name the angel had given him before his mother became pregnant.
22. After the days required by Moses’ Teachings to make a mother clean had passed, Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem. They took Jesus to present him to the Lord.