Mary the mother of Jesus. She was the daughter of Heli, though the genealogy given by Luke lists Mary’s husband Joseph as the “son of Heli.” Says M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia (1881, Vol. III, p. 774): “In constructing their genealogical tables, it is well known that the Jews reckoned wholly by males, rejecting, where the blood of the grandfather passed to the grandson through a daughter, the name of the daughter herself, and counting that daughter’s husband for the son of the maternal grandfather (Numb. xxvi, 33; xxvii, 4-7).” It is undoubtedly for this reason the historian Luke says that Joseph was the “son of Heli.”—Lu 3:23.
Mary was of the tribe of Judah and a descendant of David. Hence it could be said of her son Jesus that he “sprang from the seed of David according to the flesh.” (Ro 1:3) Through his adoptive father Joseph, a descendant of David, Jesus had a legal right to David’s throne, and through his mother, as the “offspring,” “seed,” and “root” of David, he held the natural hereditary right to “the throne of David his father.”—Mt 1:1-16; Lu 1:32; Ac 13:22, 23; 2Ti 2:8; Re 5:5; 22:16.
If tradition is correct, Heli’s wife, the mother of Mary, was Anna, whose sister had a daughter named Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptizer. This tradition would make Elizabeth the cousin of Mary. That Mary was related to Elizabeth, who was “from the daughters of Aaron” of the tribe of Levi, the Scriptures themselves state. (Lu 1:5, 36) Mary’s sister, some have thought, was Salome, the wife of Zebedee, whose two sons, James and John, were numbered among Jesus’ apostles.—Mt 27:55, 56; Mr 15:40; 16:1; Joh 19:25.
2007-01-22 12:43:04
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answered by papa G 6
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Jesus was born into the family of David through Joseph and was by blood related to David through Mary.
2007-01-22 12:40:11
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answered by djmantx 7
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Mary was of the house of David so Jesus was a part of David's family through blood and marriage.
2007-01-22 13:46:28
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answered by Anonymous
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Now remember one thing the blood line of Jesus had to be pure so that is why it went from God, HolyGhost, Mary,Jesus. But lets not be to deep that we can't really understand what the word is saying. If we were to take the word as it is Jesus did come from the house of David Maybe not the bloodline of David but he did come out of his house,David raised him with Mary in his house.
2007-01-22 12:44:59
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answered by brownshan28 1
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Mary and Joseph were both of the House of David.
2007-01-22 12:38:02
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answered by nancy jo 5
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Joseph was not of the house of David. Mary was but I am under the impression that a woman's lineage was totally dismissed at that time.
2007-01-22 12:37:21
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answered by Anonymous
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The gospels of Mathew and Luke give account of the genealogy of Jesus, they trace it back to Kind David and thereafter to Abraham.
2007-01-22 12:48:12
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answered by Anonymous
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people have found that the line of David also reaches to Mary. So Joseph and Mary must have been distantly related.
2007-01-22 12:36:50
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answered by Anonymous
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You linger on the details. That's why it's silly to take religious text letter for letter. The point of the book is not forensic.
The Christ nature is like the Buddha nature. It's not about the man, but who the man embodied. In short, it's about the potential goodness of man.
Why argue about what kind of fruit was in the garden of Eden. That story has a point that has nothing to do with stuff like that.
2007-01-22 12:39:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Ok if you would of read it right, you would of found that joseph was a descenant of king david. so its still the house of david. Read the genealogy, you will find your answer.
2007-01-22 13:08:09
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answered by ? 3
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