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Jesus' lineage in Islam, going back to his great-grandfather. The Qurʼan upholds the virgin birth of Jesus [118] and thus considers his genealogy only through Mary (Maryam), without mentioning Joseph. Mary is very highly regarded in the Qurʼan, the nineteenth surah being named for her.
The list opens and closes with a significant title for Jesus as "Jesus Christ" (1:1, 1:18; rarely used in the Gospel of Matthew). [4] The opening words of the gospel show that it is written by a Jew for Jewish readers. [5] The genealogy demonstrates that Jesus comes from the seed of Abraham and belongs to the House of David, and thus is their ...
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 ...
For a full discussion of the women mentioned in Matthew's genealogy, see Matthew 1:3#Analysis. This genealogy matches that given in several other places in the Bible, including Luke 3:32 . It covers the period after the Exodus to around the founding of the Kingdom of Israel .
Shealtiel is a significant, though controversial, member in the genealogies of the House of David and of the genealogy of Jesus. There is conflicting text in the Hebrew Bible in 1 Chronicles 3:19, which lists Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel's brother, Pedaiah (while the Greek Septuagint lists Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel [2]). Though ...
An added problem is that, even with several extra names added, there are far too few names for the many centuries this genealogy is meant to cover, as Matthew focuses mainly on Jesus's royalty lineage, not the biological line (which is possibly used in Luke 3) which he did not have access to. [7]
LifeWise Academy's Bible lessons are permitted under a pair of decades-old U.S. Supreme Court rulings that allow off-campus religious instruction during school hours. How an Ohio group is bringing ...
Some of those who believe that the relationship with Elizabeth was on the maternal side, believe that Mary, like Joseph, was of the royal Davidic line and so of the Tribe of Judah, and that the genealogy of Jesus presented in Luke 3 from Nathan, is in fact the genealogy of Mary, while the genealogy from Solomon given in Matthew 1 is that of Joseph.