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Bible Question:
I would like to know why the genealogy of Jesus differs markedly between the account of Matthew (Matthew 1: 1-17) and Luke (Luke 3: 23-38). Matthew claims that Jesus was from King Solomon's line, whilst Luke claims he was from Nathan's (another son of David's) line. All the names are different from King David onwards, until Shealtiel and Zerubabbel. Then, they differ again. There aren't any tallying names from David to Shealtiel and from Zerubabbel to Joseph. I refuse to accept that it was a simple error, because Christianity is based on the fact that the Bible is the Truth, the absolute Truth and nothing but the Truth. Besides, if this was an error, then how would I know that there aren't any more errors in the rest of the Bible? |
Bible Answer: The accounts are not contrary when you consider that Matthew's (through Solomon - royal) is that of Joseph, while that in Luke (through Nathan - legal) is that of Mary the mother of our LORD. Nathan was the older brother and had a legal right to the throne and his line produced the Virgin Mary. Solomon the younger brother took the throne and his line produced Joseph Jesus' step-father. Matthew in giving the royal line mentions Jechonias. Now, Jechonias and his decendants had a curse placed on them in Jeremiah 22:30 "... no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah." not one of his seven sons (I Chron. 3:17,18) ever posessed the throne. However Nathan's line had no curse on it. Therefore Jesus is eligible for the throne through the leagal line of Nathan, and adopted by Joseph into the royal line as the royal heir. He was the seed of David accoring to the flesh (Mary). and when Joseph married Mary as D. G. Barnhouse said Joseph "took the unborn child under his protecting care, giving Him the title which had come down to him through his ancestor Solomon, the LORD Jesus became the leagl Messiah, the royal Messiah, the uncursed Messiah, the true Messiah, the only possible Messiah." Man's Ruin page 47. |
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