 Protestant theologian Jeremy Taylor argues that Jesus's circumcision proved his human nature while fulfilling the law of Moses and had Jesus been uncircumcised, it would have made Jews substantially less receptive to his Evangelism.The law in requires that after giving birth of a male child, a mother is regarded as 'unclean' for seven days and to stay home for a further 33 days, after which, on the 40th day, a sacrifice is to be offered for her purification and can only be done in Jerusalem.It is Mary, not her child, who needed to be purified, and even though Mary was not polluted by the conception, bearing, and giving birth of Jesus, who had no impurity in his nature (although he was made sin for his people), she still came under this law of purification, so that all possible requirements of the law were fulfilled (cf.