“When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.”
Luke 2:21 (BSB)
Context Reading
19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, which was just as the angel had told them. 21When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived. 22And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23(as it is written in the Law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord”),