Luke 2:29-46

²⁹Lord, now thou leavest thy servant after thy word in peace; (Lord, now thou lettest thy servant go or to depart in peace, according to thy word;)

³⁰for mine eyes have seen thine health, (for my eyes have seen thy salvation or thy deliverance,)

³¹which thou hast made ready before the face of all (the) peoples;

³²light to the showing of heathen men, and (the) glory of thy people Israel. (light for the showing to the Gentiles, and glory to thy people Israel.)

³³And his father and his mother were wondering on these things, that were said of him (or that were said about their son).

³⁴And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, Lo! this (child) is set into the falling down and into the rising again of many men in Israel, and into a token, to whom it shall be against-said, (or and as a sign, to which it shall be said against, or which shall be rejected).

³⁵And a sword shall pass through thine own soul, (so) that the thoughts be showed of many hearts.

³⁶And Anna was a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the lineage of Aser. And she had gone forth in many days, and had lived with her husband seven years from her maidenhood.

³⁷And this (woman) was a widow to fourscore years and four; and she departed not from the temple, but served God night and day in fastings and prayers.

³⁸And this (woman) came upon them in that hour, and acknowledged to the Lord, and spake of him to all that abided the redemption of Israel. (And she came upon them at that time, and thanked the Lord, and spoke about him to all who waited for Israel’s redemption.)

³⁹And as they had full done all things or And as they had perfectly done all things, after the law of the Lord, they turned again into Galilee, into their city Nazareth, (or they returned to Galilee, to their city of Nazareth).

⁴⁰And the child waxed, and was comforted, full of wisdom, (or And the child grew, and was strengthened, and was full of wisdom); and the grace of God was in him.

⁴¹And his father and mother went each year into Jerusalem, in the solemn day of pask. (And his father and mother went each year to Jerusalem, for the Feast Day, or the Festival, of Passover.)

⁴²And when Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast day.

⁴³And when the days were done, they turned again (or they returned home); and the child abode in Jerusalem, and his father and mother knew it not.

⁴⁴For they guessing that he had been in the fellowship, came a day’s journey, and sought him among his cousins and his acknowledged or and (his) known.

⁴⁵And when they found him not, they turned again into Jerusalem, and sought him. (And when they could not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, and searched for him.)

⁴⁶And it befell, that after the third day they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the doctors, (or the teachers of the Law), hearing them and asking them.