From David to Jesus

Born to David and Bathsheba after their first son died; the LORD sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah. He succeeded his father as king.

Kings calls him Abijam.

Kings calls him “Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.” Matthew goes from him straight to Uzziah; 1 Chronicles names three kings between them: Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah.

Also called Azariah, as in most of 2 Kings and in 1 Chronicles, where his father is Amaziah.

Matthew: “Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.” 1 Chronicles names Jehoiakim between them: Jehoiakim was Josiah’s son, and Jeconiah Jehoiakim’s.

Taken to Babylon in the exile. 1 Chronicles lists “the descendants of Jeconiah the captive,” Shealtiel first.

Here the two genealogies meet. Matthew and 1 Chronicles call him a son of Jeconiah; Luke, a son of Neri. By one view Luke’s Shealtiel and Zerubbabel are Matthew’s; by another, two other men of the same names.

Governor of Judah after the exile, “Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel.” Here the lines part: Matthew goes on with Abiud, Luke with Rhesa. 1 Chronicles calls him a son of Pedaiah and names his children; neither Abiud nor Rhesa is among them.

From Abiud to Jacob, Matthew names men who appear nowhere else in the Bible.

Joseph’s father, according to Matthew — not Jacob the son of Isaac.

Matthew calls his father Jacob; Luke, Heli. By one view Luke gives the line of Mary; by another, Jacob and Heli were brothers and one was his father by levirate marriage, raising a son for a brother who died childless. The text does not say.

• Wife
  Mary

  “Pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David.” Neither Gospel names her father or her mother.

  Matt 1:16 · Luke 1:27 · Luke 2:5

  • JesusIn both genealogiesMother: Mary

    Luke: “He was regarded as the son of Joseph,” and was “about thirty years old” when he began his ministry. Matthew: “Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”

    Matt 1:16 · Luke 2:7 · Luke 3:23

A son of David and Bathsheba, born in Jerusalem — not Nathan the prophet. Luke’s genealogy of Jesus runs through him.

Here the two genealogies meet. Matthew and 1 Chronicles call him a son of Jeconiah; Luke, a son of Neri. By one view Luke’s Shealtiel and Zerubbabel are Matthew’s; by another, two other men of the same names.

Governor of Judah after the exile, “Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel.” Here the lines part: Matthew goes on with Abiud, Luke with Rhesa. 1 Chronicles calls him a son of Pedaiah and names his children; neither Abiud nor Rhesa is among them.

From Rhesa to Heli, as from Mattatha to Neri, Luke names men who appear nowhere else in the Bible.

Joseph’s father, according to Luke.

Matthew calls his father Jacob; Luke, Heli. By one view Luke gives the line of Mary; by another, Jacob and Heli were brothers and one was his father by levirate marriage, raising a son for a brother who died childless. The text does not say.

• Wife
  Mary

  “Pledged in marriage to a man named Joseph, who was of the house of David.” Neither Gospel names her father or her mother.

  Matt 1:16 · Luke 1:27 · Luke 2:5

  • JesusIn both genealogiesMother: Mary

    Luke: “He was regarded as the son of Joseph,” and was “about thirty years old” when he began his ministry. Matthew: “Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”

    Matt 1:16 · Luke 2:7 · Luke 3:23