A review of Jesus’ ancestry discloses that both Joseph[1] and
Mary[2] descended
from David. Hence, Jesus descended from David through the biological motherhood of Mary,[3] as
well as the legal adoptive fatherhood
of Joseph.[4]
The bloodlines of Joseph and Mary again intersected with
Zerubbabel. Joseph descended through Abiud,[5]
Zerubbabel’s oldest son, and Mary descended through Zerubbabel’s youngest son,
Rhesa.[6]
Furthermore, Mary and Joseph had the same paternal
grandfather, Matthan. Matthan, as Matthew called him,[7] or
Matthat, as Luke referred to him,[8]
fathered Jacob (Joseph’s father) and Eli (Mary’s father), making Mary and
Joseph first cousins.[9]
[1]
Matthew 1:6
[2]
Luke 3:31
[3]
Romans 1:3; Luke 3:23-38 (Take special note of verses 23 and 31.)
[4]
Matthew 1:1-17 (Take special note of verses 6 and 16.)
[5]
Matthew 1:13
[6]
Luke 3:27
[7]
Matthew 1:15
[8]
Luke 3:24
[9]
Jewish civil law permitted first cousins to marry. God never prohibited such
marriage in His Scriptures. For a list of intimate relationships forbidden by
God for the Israelites, read Leviticus 18:5-24.
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