And coming up at that very instant, she began praising God and speaking about the Child to all those waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.
Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and pious, waiting for the consolation of Israel. The Ruach ha-Kodesh was on him.
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
But we were hoping that He was the One about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.
“Blessed be Adonai, God of Israel, for He has looked after His people and brought them redemption.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah.
(He had not been in agreement with the council and their action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.
Joseph of Arimathea, a respected council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Yeshua’s body.
Now Anna, a daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher, was a prophetess. She was well advanced in age, having lived with a husband only seven years