<p>2:27 <i>And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law</i>- Mary did not legally have to bring the Lord to the temple; she was poor, as reflected in her inability to offer a lamb but rather two cheap birds. It was a Divinely overruled coincidence that she happened to be in the temple courts at just the time that Simeon entered; Anna likewise (see on :38). This kind of coincidence is simply called being &quot;in the Spirit&quot;, and the Spirit is no less active in our encounters and coincidences today. &quot;The parents&quot; is obviously an example of the Biblical record being written from the viewpoint of secular observers; the language of demons is similar. Joseph was not the actual parent, just as demons don't actually exist, but the language of human perception is still used. For language is in a sense a matter of human perception.</p>