Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way: After His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child by the Holy Spirit.
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, had in mind to divorce her privately.
But while he thought on these things, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for He who is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
She will bear a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”
Now all this occurred to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet, saying,
“A virgin shall be with child, and will bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is interpreted, “God with us.”
Then Joseph, being awakened from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and remained with his wife,
and did not know her until she had given birth to her firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
because He has anointed Me
to preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed;
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were created through Him, and without Him nothing was created that was created.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
When Jesus spoke these words, He lifted His eyes toward heaven and said:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may also glorify You.
As You have given Him authority over all flesh, He will give eternal life to all whom You have given Him.
This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
All that are Mine are Yours, and all that are Yours are Mine. And I am glorified in them.
I am to be no longer in the world, though these are in the world, for I am coming to You. Holy Father, through Your name keep those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one.
that they may all be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You. May they also be one in Us, that the world may believe that You have sent Me.
I have given them the glory which You gave Me, that they may be one even as We are one:
I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfect in unity, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
“Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, that they may see My glory which You have given Me. For You loved Me before the creation of the world.
“O righteous Father, the world has not known You, but I have known You, and these have known that You sent Me.
I have declared Your name to them, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
So then, as the children share in flesh and blood, He likewise took part in these, so that through death He might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was in every sense tempted like we are, yet without sin.
You know that He was revealed to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
Whoever practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed, that He might destroy the works of the devil.