Luke 2:33

Luke 2:33. And his father. ‘Joseph' was substituted at an early date. ‘The parents' are spoken of in Luke 2:27 (comp, the words of Mary, Luke 2:48). Our Lord, however, is never rep-resented as calling Joseph by this title. The use of it by Luke, in the legal and popular sense, involves no contradiction of his previous statements. To have avoided the term would look like the over-carefulness of an inventor.

Were marvelling, while Simeon was speaking. Although this was only a confirmation of the more direct revelations previously made, their wonder is made more prominent than their faith.