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1 | How is Jesus related to King David? | Matt 1:1 | anolhippie | 227446 | ||
The ancestry of Jesus takes us to Joseph, yet we are told that the Holy Spirit was the father of Jesus. How then is Jesus a descendant of David? | ||||||
2 | How is Jesus related to King David? | Matt 1:1 | PaulusSecundus | 227447 | ||
See Luke 3:23. | ||||||
3 | How is Jesus related to King David? | Matt 1:1 | anolhippie | 227448 | ||
again in Luke the linage is to Joseph and not Mary so if Joseph is not the father of Jesus how then is Jesus a descendant of David? | ||||||
4 | How is Jesus related to King David? | Matt 1:1 | PaulusSecundus | 227449 | ||
"Jacob was the father of Joseph." (Matthew 1:16) Jesus was "as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli." (Luke 3:23) Joseph can't have two fathers! Hence, "Eli" was Joseph's father in law, the father of Mary, the descendant of David. |
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5 | How is Jesus related to King David? | Matt 1:1 | anolhippie | 227453 | ||
? Matthew does list Jacob as the father of Joseph while in Luke it says Joseph is the son of Heli. I find nothing about Mary's parents or any reference to Joseph's in-laws? | ||||||
6 | How is Jesus related to King David? | Matt 1:1 | biblicalman | 227464 | ||
One possible explanation to this question is that Mathhew is giving the line of royal descent, while Luke is giving the line of actual descent by blood. Thus Matthew lists each person who ascended the throne even if they were not strictly sons of the previous person mentioned, if the previous one died childless. Thus Joseph's father was Heli, but his right to the throne of Israel came to him because Jacob died childless. He was thus from a Jewish point of view 'the son of Jacob', that is, his heir. | ||||||