The language of Matthew’s genealogy reflects this legal understanding: “ Joseph, the husband of Mary. We know this because Luke’s gospel tells us that Mary was a “ relative” of Elizabeth, who was a “descendant of Aaron.”īut when Joseph, who was descended from David, married Mary, this also constituted his legal adoption of the son she would bear. But Jesus was not descended from David, who was from the tribe of Judah, through his mother Mary, because she was instead a descendant of Aaron from the tribe of Levi. The purpose of the genealogy in Matthew’s gospel is to demonstrate that Jesus is “ the son of David, the son of Abraham,” that is, the legal heir of both of these men and thus the beneficiary (and ultimate fulfillment) of the covenant promises that God made to them.Īll Jews were descended from Abraham.
How does the genealogy of Christ work? Because if this is recorded in a patriarchal society, this is the line of Joseph, right? Doesn’t that mean none of this genealogy actually flows through Jesus’s blood? How is he from the line of King David if his real father is God and not Joseph?
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