Book of Matthew – Chapter 1 Summary
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The book of Matthew begins with the genealogy from Abraham to Jesus. Verse 17 notes that there were ‘14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 generations from David to the exile of Babylon, and 14 more generations till Jesus was born. That is 42 total generations.
The rest of Matthew chapter 1 speaks of the conception of Jesus and of Joseph’s dream from God that informed him that Mary hadn’t been cheating on him, but that he was to be the father of the savior of the world.
The last verse of the chapter also states that Mary and Joseph were not together sexually until after Jesus was born.
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November 19th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Chapter 1 verse 17 Book of Matthew – Please explain the significance of the three divisions each of 14 generations?
Thanks very much.
Russ
November 26th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
That’s a great question Russ. The footnote in the concordance of my bible hypothesizes on it as being part of the theme throughout Matthew. The author has an artistic touch to this gospel and also displays a fondness of numbers. So it’s more style than significance. The link below also discusses the fact that David is listed twice in this count and therefore an exact count of the generations is only 41. The link explains it a little better. http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/bible-for-dummies/BD3W0303.pdf