When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Should be circumcised; which might be done not only in the temple, or in a synagogue, but in any house. Witham.—Many reasons may be alleged why our Saviour submitted to the painful and humbling knife of circumcision: 1. to manifest to the whole world the reality of his human nature, and the difference between his divinity and humanity; 2. to shew he approved of circumcision, which he had instituted; 3. to prove that he was of the seed of Abraham; 4. to teach us humility and obedience, by observing a law to which he was not bound; 5. that by receiving the burthen of the law, he might free those that were under the law, (Galatians 3); and lastly, that the Jews might have no excuse for rejecting him, because he was uncircumcised. S. Epiph. and Nic. de Lyra.