Question: Can you explain the difference between genealogies in Matthew 1 and Luke 3?
Wikipedia: The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke.[1] Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam. The lists are identical between Abraham and David, but differ radically from that point. Matthew has twenty-seven generations from David to Joseph, whereas Luke has forty-two, with almost no overlap between the names on the two lists. Notably, the two accounts also disagree on who Joseph's father was: Matthew says he was Jacob, while Luke says he was Heli.[2]
Traditional Christian scholars (starting with Africanus
and Eusebius[3]) have put forward various theories that seek to explain why the lineages are so different,[4] such as that Matthew's account follows the lineage of Joseph, while Luke's follows the lineage of Mary, although both start with Jesus and then go to Joseph, not Mary.Google: What is the difference between the genealogy of Matthew and Luke?
Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam. The lists are identical between Abraham and David, but differ radically from that point. Matthew has twenty-seven generations from David to Joseph, whereas Luke has forty-two, with almost no overlap between the names on the two lists.
Why the genealogy of Jesus is different?
Another possible explanation for the two different genealogies is that Matthew presents a royal or legal genealogy, while Luke gives a physical, or actual, genealogy. In other words, Matthew lists the official line of Davidic kings, not Jesus' actual ancestors. His point is to show that Joseph is related to that line.
There is much dispute, and denial of the Deity of the Lord Christ Jesus. The attacks take many forms, and the most common are to deny that the Bible is authentic by workers of Satan, or in the case of Cults and religious groups, that Jesus was only a man, and not a “manifestation” of God Himself. See; Veracity of the Bible: and The Triune God; and Ancient Aramaic Manuscripts, Pshitta O and A:
Some of the opponents of God and Christ, try to imply that the Bible itself is inconsistent in the Inspired Record. This is easily opposed by the study of the Word itself, which produces the following, which is Appendix 99 of the Companion Bible by Dr. E.W. Bullinger:
http://www.levendwater.org/companion/append99.html.
This site clearly tabulates the two lines from Abraham, to Mary and Joseph, and has a clear graphic.
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