Discover the universal message of Jesus' human ancestry in the New Testament, connecting him to the divine and emphasizing ...

And it's very important that Jesus for Matthew is fully a man from Israel. Therefore, Matthew begins his gospel by taking all the genealogy of Jesus; he wanted to show that Jesus was the son of ...

Jesus is seen by Matthew as the embodiment of all preceding Jewish history. For example, the infancy narrative contains a genealogy [1:1-17] featuring four notable women [1:3,5,6]; a number of ...

While the book doesn't name its author, the universal testimony of the early church and the earliest Greek manuscripts is ...

Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:1-17) begins with Abraham and culminates with Christ, which spanned another 2,000 years. All of these descendants and events over roughly 4,000 years from ...

Matthew is at pains to place his community squarely within its Jewish heritage, and to portray a Jesus whose Jewish identity is beyond doubt. He begins by tracing Jesus' genealogy. To do this ...