Matthew 1:11-12
Coniah = Jeconiah = Jehoiachin
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, (NIV)
Jeconiah is the king of Judah who reigned during the exile, of which Jeremiah says:
This is what the Lord says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.” (Jeremiah 22:30)
According to Dr. Henrietta C. Mears, the Jehoiachin's line was cursed so that his lineage would no longer be king. But, as she points out, Jesus's father was not Joseph (who's lineage came from Jehoiachin), but from God himself.
Thus, we also have the mother's lineage in Luke, and thus Luke says:
"Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli," (Luke 3:23 CEV) Therefore Jesus was not from Joseph's cursed lineage but "The family of Jesus went all the way back to Adam and then to God" (Luke 3:37 CEV)
Luke gives us Mary's lineage and Matthew gives us Joseph's lineage; but the actual father's "genealogy" mentioned in John 1:1-14
Coniah = Jeconiah = Jehoiachin
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, (NIV)
Jeconiah is the king of Judah who reigned during the exile, of which Jeremiah says:
This is what the Lord says: “Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.” (Jeremiah 22:30)
According to Dr. Henrietta C. Mears, the Jehoiachin's line was cursed so that his lineage would no longer be king. But, as she points out, Jesus's father was not Joseph (who's lineage came from Jehoiachin), but from God himself.
Thus, we also have the mother's lineage in Luke, and thus Luke says:
"Everyone thought he was the son of Joseph. But his family went back through Heli," (Luke 3:23 CEV) Therefore Jesus was not from Joseph's cursed lineage but "The family of Jesus went all the way back to Adam and then to God" (Luke 3:37 CEV)
Luke gives us Mary's lineage and Matthew gives us Joseph's lineage; but the actual father's "genealogy" mentioned in John 1:1-14
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