07-22-2015, 02:04 AM
(07-21-2015, 07:32 PM)tbrice Wrote: The genealogy in Luke gives me no problem. Luke plainly identifies Joseph as the "supposed" father of Jesus, which strongly suggests Mary's husband. And Luke had a reason for writing this seemingly contradictory genealogy. ... Luke wrote his COMPLEMENTARY account of husband Joseph to prove to Believers that Joseph could not have been Jesus' father because his lineage was through Nathan who was never King. On the other hand, Matthew's genealogy, he wrote it to prove that Jesus was the blood descendant of King David, fulfilling prophecy that David's Kingdom would be eternal. It became eternal when Jesus was born: The last King of Israel was, and is, Jesus; King of kings.
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Shalaamu (Shlama) TB,
In Luke 3:27, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel is described as "son of Neri." However in Matthew 1:12 and the Old Testament, Jechoniah/Jehoiachin, king of Judah, is the father of Shealtiel. I propose that perhaps Neri is the wife of Jechoniah, she being a descendant of Nathan son of King David, and both were parents of Shealtiel. However, this would make Joseph a descendant of the royal lineage as well. Unless there could've been two Shealtiels and two Zerubbabels, both being father and son of each other?
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