“1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. “2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his ...
And it's very important that Jesus for Matthew is fully a man from Israel. Therefore, Matthew begins his gospel by taking all the genealogy of Jesus; he wanted to show that Jesus was the son of ...
In Christ, as we sing of Bethlehem ... Nathanael could have easily asked, “Jesus’ genealogy! Can anything good come from there?” To which many of us would respond, then and now: Come ...
Today, after the multilingual reading of the Gospel according to Matthew on the "genealogy of Jesus" (Mt 1:1-3, 15-16), the pope spoke about Christ’s infancy and the meanings of genealogy at the ...