¹³ who were born,^(A) not of natural descent,^[a] or of the will^(B) of the flesh,^(C) or of the will of man,^[b] but of God.^(D)

3 See what great love^[a] the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.