Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

Symeon also took him in his arms and blessed God, and said,

The child's father and mother were astonished at what Symeon said.

the son of Symeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.

Symeon has told how God first showed an interest in taking from among the heathen a people to bear his name.

12,000 from the tribe of Symeon; 12,000 from the tribe of Levi; 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar;