²⁷ to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph,^(A) a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. ²⁸ The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

²⁹ Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. ³⁰ But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid,^(B) Mary; you have found favor with God.^{(C) 31} You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.^{(D) 32} He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.^(E) The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,^{(F) 33} and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom^(G) will never end.”^(H)

³⁴ “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

³⁵ The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you,^(I) and the power of the Most High^(J) will overshadow you. So the holy one^(K) to be born will be called^[a] the Son of God.^{(L) 36} Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child^(M) in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. ³⁷ For no word from God will ever fail.”^(N)

³⁸ “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.^(A)

⁴⁴ He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you:^(A) Everything must be fulfilled^(B) that is written about me in the Law of Moses,^(C) the Prophets^(D) and the Psalms.”^(E)

¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven^(A) except the one who came from heaven^(B)—the Son of Man.^[a](C)

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven^(A) not to do my will but to do the will^(B) of him who sent me.^{(C) 39} And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,^(D) but raise them up at the last day.^{(E) 40} For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son^(F) and believes in him shall have eternal life,^(G) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

⁴¹ At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph,^(H) whose father and mother we know?^(I) How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”^(J)

⁴³ “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. ⁴⁴ “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,^(K) and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[a](L) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God;^(M) only he has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.^{(N) 48} I am the bread of life.^{(O) 49} Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.^{(P) 50} But here is the bread that comes down from heaven,^(Q) which anyone may eat and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread^(R) that came down from heaven.^(S) Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”^(T)

⁵² Then the Jews^(U) began to argue sharply among themselves,^(V) “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh^(W) of the Son of Man^(X) and drink his blood,^(Y) you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.^{(Z) 55} For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.^{(AA) 57} Just as the living Father sent me^(AB) and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”^(AC)