For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? (Matthew 5:46-47)
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When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord (Luke 2:22–24)