And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child - that is, as is evident from Luke 2:20, before they left the neighbourhood. And so they were, as Bengel remarks, the first evangelists; having, indeed, no commission, but feeling with Peter and John, "We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."