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Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people.

And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us, in the house of his servant David:

As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the world began:

To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant:

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest, for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

To give knowledge of salvation to his people, by the remission of their sins,

And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing to Israel.

And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, who was so named by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that is the first born of his mother shall be called holy to the Lord)

Then he took him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,

And Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken concerning him.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this [child] is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not [of it].

And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said to him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanius the tetrarch of Abilene,