I have a few concerns about Jesus's genealogy that have caused some doubt about the New Testament for me, hopefully, you guys can help address this. First of all, why is there a discrepancy between the accounts of Jesus's genealogy in Luke and Matthew? Secondly, tribal claims are inherited through the father, and tribal claims also didn't pass through adoption in Hebrew society as I am told, so how was Jesus from the line of David exactly?
Jesus's genealogy
Luke Hill
Xavier Turner
also wondering about this, but it hardly effects my faith or anything, just a curiosity.
Adam Ross
Verses?
Connor Harris
Mary was also of David's line according to tradition (as early as Ignatius of Antioch's Epistle to the Ephesians even mentions it, and that's been dated in the early 100s AD), and some have proposed the two lines presented are Joseph's and Mary's somehow. That the "Heli/Eliachim" who is the Father of Joseph in Luke is another name for Joachim, Mary's father. While in Matthew, Joseph's direct father is Jacob.
Michael Taylor
It's an irrelevant issue. See Titus 3:9. Paul is referring to exactly this debate. It is not improbable that both genealogies are made up.
Ethan James
I had a professor explain that "begat" or "was the son of" doesn't only mean one generation different in the Bible. A grandson is "begotten" of his grandfather
Other answers: gotquestions.org
As far as the Bible is concerned, (and the Bible is God's word), Joseph's participation as an earthly father figure fulfills the necessary condition that Christ needed to be descended from David. We can disregard cultural anthropoligists who raise that doubt because it's not an internal inconsistency in the Bible.
Eli Lee
Sacred scripture is inerrant and belong to the deposit of faith. If you think it is made up then you have lost supernatural faith.
Grayson Ortiz
So one of Jesus' own apostles, and Luke, who traveled with Paul and gathered input from many sources… they're liars?
No thanks. That's unacceptable.
Camden Reed
newadvent.org
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Kayden Morgan
biblicalstudies.org.uk
Bishop Lightfoot covers this in his commentary on Matthew, but with the added perspective of a Jewish context. So he will describe how the Jews would have understood it.
Pg 9 in the book, Pg 15 in the pdf.