Jesus Family Tree Genealogy

How Impressive is Jesus’ Genealogy?

Have you ever read about Jesus’ genealogy? I would like to know what you have to say of such an impressive family tree. You could be surprised to ponder about it.

Yes sir, I have read about Jesus’ genealogy and pondered about it, but I missed getting impressed because I looked behind the curtain.

Let me tell you about it. There are two reports about Jesus’ genealogy in the NT. One is by Matthew and the other by Luke. There are differences in the names but the goal is the same: To trace Jesus’ genealogy through Joseph as it has been always the custom in Judaism.

Matthew differs from Luke not only in tracing
Jesus’ genealogy but also in his birth as a king, born in a house, God knows how gorgeous, visited by king-like men with golden gifts, and led by a star. Luke’s baby Jesus, however, gets to be born in a manger, and is visited by poor, empty-handed shepherds. Thus, throughout each other’s gospels, they do seem sometimes to be reporting about two different Jesuses.

The bottom line is that both, Matthew and Luke are tracing Jesus through Joseph. If Luke, as some churches defend, is tracing Jesus’ genealogy through Mary, the book will be discredit for the huge number of contradictions.

First of all, the expression “as was supposed,” between quotation marks in Luke 3:23 in the King James version, is an added interpolation by the translator to deny Jesus’ filiation to Joseph. Without that interpolation the verse is read with Jesus being son of Joseph, which naturally, Jesus is placed into the lineage of David from the Tribe of Judah.

Those who wish to alienate Joseph from any genealogical relation with Jesus will do much better studying Luke a little further. He lets no one hang about Mary’s own family three: That she was rather from the Tribe of Levi and not of Judah. In Luke 1:5 we have that Zechariah’s wife, Elisabeth was of the daughters of Aaron the Levite. Also, in Luke 1:36 we have that Elisabeth was a cousin of Mary’s. Therefore, Mary was from the Tribe of Levi. There is nothing better than that to relate her to the Tribe of Judah in the whole of the NT.

Now, Christianity is at a strait, isn’t it? If Jesus was not son of Joseph, he could not be from the Tribe of Judah. If he was not from the Tribe of Judah, he could not be the Messiah. On the other hand, if Jesus was son of Joseph, it’s granted that he was from the Tribe of Judah, but he could not be God’s son according to Paul’s Hellenistic gospel.

Yes, that’s indeed a Christian dilemma. Jesus cannot be both, Messiah and son of God, and the NT offers no solution. If you have any, it must be from outside reference. Remember though, one thing is to declare things without facts; the other quite different one is to document it.

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