Genealogy of Jesus Christ

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Outline
In= terpretation
Matthew's= =20 Account
Recorded=20 Women
Luke's=20 Account
About=20 Joseph
Jehoiakim's= =20 Curse
Objections
Closing=20 Remarks
Print=20 Article

Alleged Discrepancies
A discussion = of the=20 genealogies would be incomplete without considering some of the = apparent=20 discrepancies between the records. Some of the most common = objections are=20 raised here.
   Those which are addressed in = greater=20 detail in the preceding information, are briefly recapped. =

1.=20 If Matthew indicated there were 42 generations from Abraham to = Jesus, why=20 do only 40 names appear in his genealogy?
This is a common = objection, which a cursory look at Matthew 1:17 would seem to = justify.=20
   However, careful examination shows that = Matthew=20 broke the genealogy down into three historic divisions, each of = which=20 contained fourteen generations. Two of the names are repeated. = David's was=20 repeated because he was alive when the first division ended, and = the=20 second division began.
   It is widely held = that=20 Jeconiah's name was repeated because of a mistranslation. = Jeconiah's=20 father's name was Jehoiakim. The names had similar spellings. = Apparently=20 the oversight of transcribers caused the name to be repeated. This = scenario has added credibility because some ancient manuscripts = actually=20 do contain both names.

2. Matthew's genealogy is = inconsistent=20 with Old Testament records, that show Matthew skipped generations. =
Matthew's genealogy was deliberately abridged. This may = have been=20 to aid in memorization of the tables. Old Testament writers also = abridged=20 their genealogical records, so Matthew had scriptural precedent to = do so=20 (compare Ezra 7:3 with 1 Chronicles 6:7-10).

3. = Comparison=20 shows that Matthew and Luke did not record the same names in their = genealogies. Since they are not in harmony with each other, one or = both of=20 them must be erroneous.
Matthew and Luke traced two family = histories. Matthew recorded the ancestors of Joseph, the legal = father of=20 Jesus. Luke recorded the ancestors of Mary, the biological mother = of=20 Jesus. The divergence of names is natural, given the fact that = both=20 authors presented two different family trees.

4. Luke = stated=20 that Joseph was the son of Heli, while Matthew stated he was the = son of=20 Jacob.
The Jerusalem Talmud shows that Joseph was the = son-in-law=20 of Heli. Joseph's father was Jacob. It was customary to refer to a = son-in-law as a son in the first century. So Luke's statement was=20 culturally correct.

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