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Moreover, Jews argue that the Messiah must descend through David's son Solomon (2 Sam 7:12–16, Psalm 89:28–38, 1 Chronicles 17:11–14, 22:9–10, 28:6–7). Luke's genealogy of Joseph is traced back to David through his son Nathan (who was not a king). They argue this eliminates Jesus' genealogy in Luke.
Tertullian, on the other hand, argues that Jesus must have descended from David by blood through his mother Mary. [114] He sees Biblical support in Paul's statement that Jesus was "born of a descendant of David according to the flesh". [115] Affirmations of Mary's Davidic ancestry are found early and often. [116]
The Davidic line refers to the descendants of David, who established the House of David (Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד Bēt Dāwīḏ) in the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. In Judaism , it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bible , as well as on later Jewish traditions .
The family's alleged Hebrew provenance was utilized and elaborated by the Georgian Bagratids to claim the descent from the divinely appointed model biblical king David, himself a descendant, in an unbroken line, of Adam and the ancestor of Jesus Christ, at the same time obscuring the dynasty's true origin and blood-ties with Armenian cousins.
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The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Although absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as seen with Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation of the same name ...
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