The Birth of Jesus the Messiah

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah^[a] took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit.^(A)

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.^{(A) 11} He came to what was his own,^[a] and his own people did not accept him. ¹² But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,^{(B) 13} who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.^(C)

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,^[b] full of grace and truth.^(D)

⁵ Let the same mind be in you that was^[a] in Christ Jesus,^(A)