Joseph and Mary return to Nazareth once they have completed the requirements of old covenant law. In this, they have shown themselves to be a godly couple, eager to honour and obey the Lord.1 We are thus comforted to know that Jesus will grow up in a family where his mom and dad will seek to teach him God’s truth (Deuteronomy 6:4–9).
39 And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.