37 and was a widow for eighty-four years.[a] She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.(A) 38 At that very moment,[b] she came up and began to thank God and to speak about him to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.[c](B)

The Family’s Return to Nazareth

39 When they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:37 Or she was a widow until the age of eighty-four
  2. 2:38 Lit very hour
  3. 2:38 Other mss read in Jerusalem

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