⁶ While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, ⁷ and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

⁵² “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.^{(A) 53} Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?^{(B) 54} But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled^(C) that say it must happen in this way?”

³⁷ It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’^[a];^(A) and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”

²⁵ He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! ²⁶ Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?”^(A)

¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,^(A) the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.^(B)