Yeshua was not exempt from this redemption. Although he was the Messiah, he was not from the levitical tribe. In actuality, the Scriptures predicted that the Messiah would be from another leading tribe—Judah (see Genesis 49:10). Yeshua’s pidyon ha’ben ceremony is described in Luke’s Gospel: There was in Yerushalayim a man named Shim’on [Simeon]. This man was a tzaddik [righteous one], he was devout, he waited eagerly for God to comfort Israel, and the Ruach HaKodesh was upon him. It had been revealed
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