Tag: genealogy
Genealogy of Jesus – Part 4: Descent from Antiquity
Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus ends this way: Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah. Luke’s...
Genealogy of Jesus – Part 3: You’ve Got to Know the Word to Know the Word
Reading all of the names in the genealogy of Jesus, I know I’ve read them before. I know I’ve read their stories, some of the brief and boring, some more enthralling. But for most of these individuals, I...
Genealogy of Jesus – Part 2: Fathers and Foreigners
If we are in the Church, we are children of Abraham. Heirs of the promise and inheritors of the lineage of Christ. Jesus calls us brothers and sisters. So I shouldn’t read the names from...
Genealogy of Jesus – Part 1: It’s My Family Tree, Too
I love genealogies. For Christmas one year I received a subscription to ancestry.com. I ended up devoting the next 12 months to tracing my lineage as far back as I could go and down all...