And circumcision is still a very important event in the life of the Jewish community. That is if the baby is circumcised outside of Israel. Now Jesus was circumcised in Israel, so it was a brit. But you may notice in my sermon title it says, Two Birds And A Bris . That's because if I used brit, I was afraid our British members might be scared off thinking that the sermon was about them.
Circumcision is still very important.
Ironically, it had his birth date there as well. This was a really well done web page with pictures of the ceremony, the reception afterwards, of people dancing, and why and how they named him Jonathan Joshua. Just a week old, and Jesus is already into the pain and bloodiness of human existence. Eight days old, and his blood is already being shed. It was probably Joseph.