The Consolation of Israel

637.096 - 666.815 R.C. Sproul

What would have been the reaction of his friends and of his neighbors? They would have thought the man was senile. They would have thought he was out of his mind. I like to think that Simeon came every single day and came and approached the temple confines. People say, what are you doing, Simeon? I'm coming to see if the Messiah has come yet. And he would check in the temple, no Messiah.