What’s Happening at the Presentation of the Lord?

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Forty days after his birth, Christ was presented at the Temple. Why?

Feb. 2 is the Feast of the the Presentation of the Lord.

We read about the presentation of the Lord in Luke Chapter 2, but the text can be a little mysterious.

What is actually happening there?

Some claim that Luke himself didn't know...



What Luke Says
Here is what Luke (2:22-24) actually says about the event:

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 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ’Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord’) and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, ‘a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.’
He then records the encounters with Simeon and Anna the prophetess, but at the moment our focus is what Luke refers to as “their purification.”

What is he talking about?

Continued below.

What’s Happening at the Presentation of the Lord?

Forty days after his birth, Christ was presented at the Temple. Why?

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A Protestant Presentation of Mary's Sins

If Mary hadn't been 'unclean' after Jesus' birth, there'd be no Feast of the Presentation today. And you can't be unclean without sinning . . . right?

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