Luke 2:21

The Message

When the eighth day arrived, the day of circumcision, the child was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived.

Cross References

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus insisted. “Do it. God’s work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism.” So John did it.

Luke 1:59

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: “No. He is to be called John.”