And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,

When the period of purification of mother and child, enjoined by the Law of Moses, came to an end, his parents took the child up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

When the child's parents had done everything enjoined by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.