Christians: When the Bible talks about Jesus' lineage, is it following from Joseph or Mary or both?

Question

The line of David?

It seems that with Joseph not being Jesus' father, his line could not be used.

Answer 1

Both Joseph and Mary were descended from David.

Matthew lists Joseph's genealogy. (Matthew 1:16)

Because Joseph cannot be the son of both Heli (Luke 3:23) and Jacob (Matthew 1:16), and the lineage back to David is diff rent, the proper rendition of Luke 3:23 should show that Joseph is Heli's son-in-law. That means the genealogy in the book of Luke is Mary's.

Both of those genealogies are important to affirm that Yashua was the Messiah. However, there is one more genealogy that most overlook, it is in John. This shows Yashua's descent from God.

John 1:1 ¶ From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God. 2 This Word was from the first in relation with God. 3 All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
4 What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 ¶ And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

Answer 2

The genealogy of Jesus through either one or both of his earthly parents (Mary and Joseph) is given by two passages from the Gospels, Matthew 1:2–16 and Luke 3:23–38. Both of them trace Christ's line back to King David and from there on to Abraham; Luke traces the line all the way back to Adam. These lists are identical between Abraham and David,

Answer 3

Matthew & Luke.
Both blood lines are explained in the Bible to show Jesus' biological association to David and many others through Mary; and Jesus' presumed legal association to David and many others through Joseph.

Answer 4

Jesus' lineage goes back to the line of David through Joseph.

Answer 5

Joseph was supposedly descended from David, thus they're speaking of Joseph's line. Regardless of where one stands on the 'virgin birth' issue, Joseph would have been considered Jesus's natural father, and so Jesus's claim to the Davidic line would have been acceptable.

Answer 6

Matthew talks of Josephs line it is the legal line.
And I think it's Mark talks of Mary's line it's blood.
Both are in line with David.
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Answer 7

First, does everybody care whether you do no longer settle for the certainty of Luke's line is tracing Mary's line? Secondly, supplies have been made to David which the two strains did. finally, a virgin delivery is the only way for Jesus' sacrifice to grow to succeed. in common terms a suitable human life must be exchanged for the fee of Adam's life. a minimum of one determine could be suitable as God replaced into. Oddly as we communicate, we haven't any situation if we comprehend drugs some virgin delivery. synthetic insemination is worry-loose place. (and not utilising a male being latest.) Projections are for taking genetic textile from bones to remake an embryo into the donors' image. this does not require adult males in any respect. We do exactly no longer think of of virgin delivery in that way.

Answer 8

Actually both. Both Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus were decended from King David...who was decended from Abraham...who was decended from Moses etc. (I skipped many generations in there) This may sound like a wonderful coincidence, but back in those days, it would have probably been very common that most of the people in a given area would have been decended from King David.

Answer 9

There are two opposing liniages offered one in Mathew and one in Luke

According to Jewish tradition liniage is traced through the mother - But Jesus had no father - (the holy spirit is supposedly responsible) therefore what would be the good or use of knowing Joesph's liniage ?

Mary's is seemingly irrelveant as well - Both accounts trace jesus back to King David but both do it through the wrong set of Kings - One King a decendant of David was cursed by god who said none of his children would ammount to anything ever -

The other one offered up doesn't go through the line of promised Kings of the messiah to Jesus

Any way it is unclear who they are talking about Mary or Joeseph - when they offer up these lines

Personally I think they made the whole thing up -


The Jews wrote the old testament as a way of keeping history - The history offered is riddled with error - For instance there could not have been an Exodus of a million Jews from Egypt - there is no record of them actually ever having been there and the Pharoh they mention didn;t exist either

The list goes on

I think they made up the New testament as well - But this time they had help from Rome


The book of Revelations for instance was written in a very well educated andf proper Greek - by John who in another gospel we are told was unable to read or write - Iliterate writes the book of Rev hmmmm

Answer 10

Both Mary and Joseph were decedents from the House of David. In Jewish tradition, the man who named the child is considered the child's father. In this case, even though God is Jesus's father Joseph is his earthly father because he named him.