‘And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law.'

And the Spirit guided this man into the Temple at the right moment, and when ‘the parents' (for this is how they would be seen in Israel) brought in the child Jesus, in obedience to the Law, in order to carry out all legal requirements, he recognised through the Spirit Who this child was.

The use of ‘parents' says nothing about the question of the method of Jesus' birth. From a Jewish point of view they were His parents regardless of whether He was adopted or begotten.

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