The Child’s father and mother were amazed at what was spoken about Him.
33. And his father and mother were wondering Luke does not say, that they were astonished at it as a new thing, but that they contemplated with reverence, and embraced with becoming admiration, this prediction of the Spirit uttered by the lips of Simeon, so that they continued to make progress in the knowledge of Christ.
Christ needed honor from the godly to balance the offense of His lowly birth and silent presentation. Simeon, a man of singular piety and communion with God, was moved by the Holy Ghost to bear witness to the child, a testimony that should have opened the priests' eyes to their Saviour, had they not been willfully blind.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 2:25-40
And Simeon blessed them,.... Pronounced them blessed persons, on account of their relation to Christ as man; and more especially, because of their interest in him, as the, Saviour and Redeemer of them; and wished them all happiness and prosperity inward and outward, temporal, spiritual, and eternal; and so the Arabic version renders it, confining it to Joseph and Mary; "and Simeon blessed them both"...