These enemies left our community of believers, but they didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have stayed with us. By leaving, they showed that none of them really belonged to us.
Then Simeon blessed them. He said to Mary, Jesus’ mother, “God has sent this child to cause many people in Israel to fall and to rise. Many will speak against him,
A prophet named Anna was also there. She was the daughter of Penuel, who came from the tribe of Asher. Anna was very old. After getting married, she had lived with her husband for seven years,