Christmas · Year C
First Sunday after Christmas
December 26, 2027
Overview & Insights
“My eyes have seen your salvation, a light for revelation to the Gentiles.” (Luke 2:30-32)
This scene completes the account of Jesus’s infancy. His circumcision and naming echo those of John in 1:59–63, but, as with the account of his birth, the subsequent incidents are unique, and they lift the reader’s expectations and theological understanding to a higher level. This scene provides the setting for the third of Luke’s canticles in chapters 1–2, Simeon’s song of praise, the Nunc Dimittis. This song, with its explicit recognition that Jesus is to be the Savior of the world, not just of the Jews, brings into the open a theme that so far has been only hinted at.
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Working Preacher: Commentary on Luke 2:22-40 Working Preacher
Lutheran lectionary commentary on Simeon and Anna recognizing the child as salvation.
CEP: Luke 2:22-40 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching
Reformed preaching commentary on the presentation and the temple's aged witnesses.
Enduring Word: Luke 2 Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.
Precept Austin: Luke 2 Commentary Precept Austin
Study page gathering many conservative commentators verse by verse on the chapter.
StudyLight: Luke 2:22 Commentaries StudyLight
Many complete commentaries gathered on this passage page.
BibleHub: Commentaries on Luke 2:22 BibleHub
Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the purification and presentation.
BibleHub: Luke 2:22 Interlinear BibleHub
Greek text with parsing for the purification and presentation language.
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Mary and Joseph bring the infant Jesus to be presented to the Lord, where old Simeon takes him up and sings the Nunc Dimittis, and the prophet Anna gives thanks.
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