Our Blackburn correspondent “says: “You refer to Matthew 1:18-25, but you do not tackle Matthew 1:1, which declares that Jesus was the son of David and Abraham, and then gives a tables of names which ends in Joseph. The writer of Matthew 1:1-17 clearly believed Jesus to be the son of David via Joseph, and could not have been the writer of vv. 18-25.
If the second part of Matthew 1 is true, what is the purpose of the genealogical table?”
A careful reading of Matthew’s Gospel makes it plain that its dominant purpose is to stress our Lord’s Messiahship. Written primarily for Hebrew Christians, it deals, in far greater detail than does any of the other Gospels, with the Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah.
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Author: P. H. Adams
Keywords: Genealogy of Christ, Genealogies of Christ, Genealogy of Jesus Christ, Genealogies of Jesus, Jesus' genealogy, Jesus's genealogy, Jesus' family tree, Jesus's family tree, Bible discrepancies, Bible discrepancy, Discrepancies in the Bible, Mary's genealogy, Joseph's genealogy, virgin birth
Bible reference(s): Matthew 1:1-17, Luke 3:23-38
Source: “The Paternity of Jesus” The Testimony, Vol. 18, No. 206, February & April 1948, pp. 68, 138.
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