1 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,700 Hi everyone, welcome to logical Bible study. 2 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:17,100 Our goal in this podcast is to help you understand the text of 3 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:20,400 the Bible, better by doing an exegesis of the text, really 4 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,100 diving into the literal sense. And today's text is a really 5 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:28,200 interesting one, we're going to see the genealogy of Jesus. 6 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,200 So I'll start by reading the passage and then we'll have a 7 00:00:31,208 --> 00:00:32,900 look at it. Now this is one of these 8 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:35,400 passages where I'm going to get a lot of the pronunciations 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,500 wrong because it's a long list of Middle East and names, so 10 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:43,100 I'll probably stuff up a few of the pronunciations and it's 11 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,000 worth going to mass today. Just to hear your priest try and 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,400 read through this list of names as well. 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,200 Today, we have Matthew chapter 1, verses 1 to 17. 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,200 So, we're right at the start of the Gospel of Matthew, A 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:02,200 genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, Son of Abraham. 16 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:07,600 Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac, the father of Jacob, 17 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,400 Jacob, the father of Judah and his brothers. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Judah was the father of Perez and zerah by Tamar being their 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 mother, Perez was the father of hezron hezron. 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,600 The father of ram. Ram was the father of aminadab 21 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:26,400 and aminadab, the father of nahshon nahshon, the father of 22 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,800 Salman Salman was the father of Boaz Rahab, being his mother. 23 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:38,200 Boas was the father of Obed Ruth, being his mother, Obed was 24 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,000 the father of Jesse and Jesse was the father of King David. 25 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,500 David was the father of Solomon whose mother had been you riyas. 26 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:51,800 Wife Solomon was the father of rehoboam rehoboam was the father 27 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,500 of abijah abijah. The father of our sir, our sir 28 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:01,200 was the father of Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat the father of joram 29 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,300 joram. The father of Azariah as Araya 30 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:10,600 was the father of jotham. Jotham was a father of ahaz ahaz 31 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,900 the father of Hezekiah A coil was the father of Manasseh. 32 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:21,000 Manasseh are the father of em on em on the father of Josiah and 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,400 Josiah was the father of jechoniah and his brothers, then 34 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,900 the deportation to Babylon took place. 35 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,800 After the deportation to Babylon jeconiah was the father of 36 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,600 shealtiel. She LT. 37 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,800 You're the father of zerubbabel. Zerubbabel the father of abhi, 38 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,800 would a beard, the father of eliakim eliakim the father of 39 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,100 Azor. Azor was the father of zadok 40 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,900 zadok, the father of Achim Achim. 41 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:55,100 The father of eliud, a lahood was the father of Eleazar. 42 00:02:55,900 --> 00:03:00,700 Eliezer, the father of matthan, matthan the father of Jacob. 43 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:03,900 And Jacob was the father of Joseph. 44 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:08,200 The husband of Mary of her was born Jesus, who is called 45 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,800 Christ. The sum of generations, is there 46 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:17,100 for 14 from Abraham to David 14 from David to the Babylonian 47 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:21,800 deportation and 14 from the Babylonian deportation to 48 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,000 Christ. So, that's the end of our very 49 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 long reading today. Now, this is one of these 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,700 passages right at the start of Matthew chapter 1, which I guess 51 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:34,700 our exegesis is, probably not going to be able to do it 52 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:36,400 justice. Because there has been a lot 53 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,200 written about this entire genealogy. 54 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,800 Lots of Scholars are spent a lot of time, unpacking, why? 55 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,300 Matthew includes these names in the particular order that they 56 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:47,700 appear on? So there's actually a lot you 57 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,200 could say about every single person that appears in this 58 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,200 genealogy and why Matthew structures at the way he does. 59 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,800 So, So there'll be some parts of this that we're going to go over 60 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,400 pretty briefly but our aim is to do a decent exegesis of most of 61 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,600 the parts of today's text. So, we start here with a long 62 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,900 list of names, which traces, Jesus lineage, from David all 63 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:13,500 the way to Christ. And we don't see genealogies in 64 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:15,700 our culture as particularly important, but to the ancient 65 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:18,200 people genealogies are really important. 66 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,300 They tell a story, a very important story. 67 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:25,600 So when Matthew lists, this genealogy, every time, Matthew 68 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,600 writes down a name and his audience would have read that 69 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:28,800 name. They would have immediately 70 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,100 recalled all of the events associated with that person. 71 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:35,500 So Matthew here is actually read Lang the story of Israel. 72 00:04:35,900 --> 00:04:39,200 And so would have actually been quite exciting for his original 73 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,100 readers to read this, particularly, because it's 74 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:46,100 depicted, as this genealogy, that reaches a crescendo in the 75 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:48,800 person of Jesus, the Messiah, the one that had been waiting 76 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,500 for. So, there's a lot, you could say 77 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:55,000 about this whole story that Matthew is, betraying hear from 78 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,700 David all the way to Christ. Now, where is the Gospel of? 79 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:03,700 Luke goes all the way back to Adam in his genealogy, Matthew, 80 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,900 if you read the first verse in Matthew starts from David, in 81 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:10,300 fact, he starts from Abraham but the two key figures that this 82 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,200 genealogy revolves around their David and Abraham. 83 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,100 It doesn't mention Adam. Matthew doesn't go all the way 84 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:18,700 back back to Adam and that makes sense. 85 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,600 Given who his audience is, remember, Matthew is writing to 86 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,200 Jews. So, Matthew wants to convince 87 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,900 his Jewish audience. That Jesus is the Messiah. 88 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:30,500 So, one of his Main goals all the way through, is, to show how 89 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:34,200 Jesus fits the description of the royal Messiah that they've 90 00:05:34,207 --> 00:05:37,700 been waiting for particularly the Royal Messiah, as 91 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:40,400 understood, a being a descendant of King David. 92 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,400 So, that's why in this genealogy, he keeps relating it 93 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,000 back to King David because the his Jewish audience in 94 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,500 particular, had this strong emphasis on the Messiah, being a 95 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,000 son of David. And of course he keeps looking 96 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,800 back to Abraham as well because he's the father of the Jews. 97 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,500 So, if we keep in mind, Matthew's, Makes sense as to why 98 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:03,400 he structured his genealogy the way that he does surge in 99 00:06:03,500 --> 00:06:06,100 Matthew's genealogy goes right back in till Abraham. 100 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:10,100 And it was promised that through Abraham all the nations of the 101 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:12,500 Earth would be blessed. That was something that Abraham 102 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,900 was told very early on. So Matthew here by emphasizing 103 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:19,300 that Jesus is descended from Abraham, not only is he 104 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:21,900 emphasizing that Jesus is the son of David. 105 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:25,900 He's also the Fulfillment of the promises to Abraham in that all 106 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:28,200 the world will be blessed through Jesus. 107 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,700 So it's actually quite amazing. How Matthew is able to weave all 108 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:36,100 of these subtle Jewish truths into his genealogy. 109 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:40,900 Now, in verse one here, our translation says this is the 110 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:44,800 book of the genealogy or sometimes the translation will 111 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,400 just be a genealogy of Jesus Christ. 112 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:50,100 Now what it actually says there in Greek is really interesting. 113 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:54,600 The phrase there in Greek is bib loss, Journey serious, which we 114 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,900 translate as book of genealogy. But what that could actually be 115 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:02,300 translated is, as book of Beginnings or even Book of 116 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:05,100 Genesis interestingly. So, Matthew here, starts his 117 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:08,200 Book of Matthew with bib lost genesius, which can be 118 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,800 translated Book of Genesis. So Matthew here is also 119 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:15,300 communicating that this is a new beginning for Humanity through 120 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:17,900 Messiah through the Messiah. There is this new beginning for 121 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:21,900 Humanity coming about, it's a new book of Genesis and he calls 122 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:25,900 it a genealogy of Jesus Christ. So Matthew, he uses the word 123 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,400 Christ, which of course means Messiah. 124 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,600 It's in the first verse here, Matthew tells his readers. 125 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:34,300 This is the genealogy of Christ. So he's actually building 126 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:38,100 excitement for his readers so that they actually want to keep 127 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:41,100 reading all this is the genealogy of Christ and so then 128 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:44,300 he sets out his genealogy building right up to the person 129 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:46,400 of Christ. So then he goes through that 130 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,400 long genealogy focusing on particularly David and Abraham 131 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,500 but he includes a whole list of names here it goes on for 16 132 00:07:54,500 --> 00:08:00,100 verses of names and it's the basic formula Is X is the father 133 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:03,500 of Y, who is the father of Y? And it keeps going all the way 134 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:07,900 down through most periods of Israelite history. 135 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:09,800 So there's some periods there about the Kings. 136 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,600 There's some periods there about the Exile. 137 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,700 After that, although he does Skip some time periods, as well. 138 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:17,300 Now, again, there's a lot you could say about each of the 139 00:08:17,308 --> 00:08:19,600 names you see, on this genealogy, but we're going to 140 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,400 skip over most of them. Although a lot of really good 141 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,100 stuff has been said about Scholars for this particular 142 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:26,500 passage. So, if you're interested, I 143 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:30,400 recommend picking up a And Terry for the gospel of Matthew. 144 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,600 One thing I want to draw your attention to those throughout 145 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,400 this genealogy women and mentioned particularly on, you 146 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,900 would have heard a few woman's name, like Ruth she was in 147 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:41,400 there. Now, that's pretty uncommon in a 148 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,500 Jewish society, which is male dominated. 149 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:46,500 Usually in the genealogies, you would only have men. 150 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,400 There was no need to include women in there. 151 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,700 So why does Matthew include women in his genealogy? 152 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:54,700 He doesn't have to the genealogy would be fine without it. 153 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,500 So Scholars have come up with some different theories about 154 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,000 Why Matthew might have included women? 155 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:02,000 And any of these could be, right. 156 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,400 So, one theory is that Matthew has included these women because 157 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,400 they're Sinners. Most of the for women, which are 158 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,400 included in this genealogy, a Sinners. 159 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,700 And so perhaps, Matthew is come to emphasize that Jesus is going 160 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:18,500 to take away the sins of the world. 161 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,200 And he's Has Come For Sinners. And these women are a good 162 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,400 example of the kind of Sinners that he's come for. 163 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:25,900 It's probably not the best explanation because some of the 164 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:28,100 men in the genealogy of sinners. As well. 165 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,900 And so it doesn't seem like the best explanation you could do 166 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:32,300 that without mentioning the women. 167 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,000 A second theory, which is really interesting. 168 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,900 Is that all four of the women that he includes, there seem to 169 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:42,900 be associated with having some sort of irregular marriage or 170 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:44,900 irregular unit. If you go back and Trace the 171 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:49,900 stories of these women, they all had a strange sort of marriage, 172 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,500 but it didn't disqualify any of them, from being part of the 173 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:56,400 royal lineage. And in fact, if they were the 174 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,200 ancestors of David, And Solomon. And some of these women were, 175 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,100 for example, Ruth is an ancestor of David and Solomon, it doesn't 176 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:07,900 disqualify David and Solomon from being God's chosen kings. 177 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,500 So maybe Matthew his included that in here. 178 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:15,300 So that his readers are a little more prepared for the shocking 179 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,900 Union that he's about to describe between Joseph and 180 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:19,800 Mary. So, the point he's making here 181 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,600 is well, all through God's history of Israel. 182 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,900 God has allowed there to be irregular unions. 183 00:10:24,900 --> 00:10:27,500 And he has allowed the king to come from that. 184 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,500 At so and now he's eventually going going to go on to describe 185 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:34,900 the Virgin birth and perhaps this is a way of kind of 186 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,100 lessening the shock of the Virgin Birth by showing. 187 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:40,600 Actually, God does allow your regular unions as part of his 188 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:42,600 chosen mine. So that's an interesting Theory 189 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,700 as well on, I think that makes good sense actually given other 190 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:49,100 things, that Jesus says later in the gospel, the third Theory 191 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:52,300 would be that all four women who were chosen are non-israelite 192 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:56,200 And so perhaps Matty here is emphasizing that Jesus has come 193 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,400 for all people for Gentiles as well. 194 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:01,600 Now, it's also worth mentioning. If you compare Matthew's 195 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,200 genealogy here with Luke's genealogy, they are a little 196 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,200 different. They have some similarities, but 197 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:07,900 there's some differences as well. 198 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:11,300 And a lot of it has to do with they're tracing different lines 199 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:18,500 of ancestry for Joseph parents. Basically, there's also some 200 00:11:18,500 --> 00:11:21,900 division among Scholars about how we should understand these 201 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:24,400 two genealogies. In terms of whose genealogies 202 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,700 are there, some have said that Luke's genealogy is basically 203 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,400 Mary's genealogy. Whereas the one we see in 204 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,300 Matthew today is Joseph's genealogy, perhaps that's true. 205 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:36,500 Although if you look at the Greek constructions there, it 206 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:40,400 looks like both of them, sort of terminate with Joseph and some 207 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,900 Scholars think the opposite is something that both genealogies 208 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:47,400 are genealogies of Mary. And so there's some arguments 209 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,800 about, you know, the best way to understand the differences 210 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,100 between Matthew and Luke but certainly we can say both of 211 00:11:52,108 --> 00:11:55,000 them. Genealogies of Jesus and they 212 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 both have slightly different purposes in terms of their 213 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,900 different audiences. Let's now go down to verse 16, 214 00:12:01,900 --> 00:12:05,800 which finishes with this, the father of Joseph, the husband of 215 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,500 Mary. Now this line breaks with the 216 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:11,100 pattern that's been set up up until now, the genealogy has 217 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,000 said and this person was the father of this person. 218 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,700 But now we have the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and 219 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:21,500 Mary is the mother of Jesus. So it doesn't actually say that 220 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:24,300 Joseph is. The father of Jesus. 221 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,200 He's only called the spouse of Mary. 222 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,300 So this is setting up the virginal conception story which 223 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:32,000 Matthew is about to tell as well. 224 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:37,000 Some Scholars see here, Joseph as a model of God's relationship 225 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 to men. So just as Joseph is not the 226 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,800 biological father of Jesus, but he is his real spiritual. 227 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,300 Father will likewise God is our real spiritual father, even if 228 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:50,600 he's not our biological father. So that's an interesting 229 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,900 connection to Now in Jewish culture, a child inherited 230 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:58,100 legal, kinship rights from their father. 231 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,100 So and this goes into the argument about why Luke, and 232 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:03,100 Matthew is genealogies, a different math. 233 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,100 You would be particularly concerned with showing how Jesus 234 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,100 has the inheritance rights to the throne of David. 235 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:13,100 And in order for Jesus to have those rights, there has to be. 236 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,500 He has to have a father from the line of David who passes on 237 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:19,500 those legal, davidic kinship rights to him. 238 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:23,900 So, Matthew here by mentioning Joseph as, and in fact, Joseph, 239 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:28,300 as a descendant of David is showing that by legal adoption 240 00:13:28,900 --> 00:13:32,300 Jesus, inherits all of the davidic rights that Joseph has. 241 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:35,900 So in that culture, if you were adopted into a family or you had 242 00:13:35,900 --> 00:13:37,900 a foster father who was considered to be your real 243 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,500 father, then all of the legal rights of the father were passed 244 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:44,300 on to you even if you're not their biological son. 245 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:47,500 So Matthew is making sure that his audience is really clear. 246 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,400 That Joseph had the davidic inheritance rights that he could 247 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:54,100 in fact pass on. His son. 248 00:13:55,700 --> 00:13:58,500 Now, Matthew here does not just present Jesus name. 249 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:01,400 He includes his title Christ, Jesus Christ. 250 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,100 So again Matthew is emphasizing. This is the long-awaited 251 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:06,300 Messiah. We get to verse 17. 252 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:09,000 And then we have this really interesting summary statement 253 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,500 from Matthew. So he's finished the genealogy. 254 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:15,700 And then in verse 17, he says, the sum of generations is there 255 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:20,700 for 14 from Abraham to David 14 from David to the Babylonian 256 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:25,700 deportation and 14 from From the Babylonian, the deportation to 257 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:29,600 Christ. So, Matthew himself, tells his 258 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,100 readers that he has deliberately organized his chronology. 259 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:38,600 His genealogy around three groups of 14 and let's talk 260 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,800 about why he's done that. So those forty two generations 261 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,900 total and his divided up into three groups of 14. 262 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:49,500 So first he says, there's fourteen Generations from 263 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:53,700 Abraham to David so that would be approximately 1800 BC that's 264 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:56,600 the time of Abraham to around 1000 BC. 265 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,100 That's the time of David 14 Generations from Abraham to 266 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:01,400 David. Well, there would certainly be 267 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,400 more than fourteen Generations in 800 years. 268 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:06,900 So clearly his left some people out. 269 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:11,500 So that's the first block of 14. There's 14 individuals that he 270 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:14,000 has mentioned the cover, the time period from Abraham to 271 00:15:14,008 --> 00:15:16,700 David, and then there's 14 from day. 272 00:15:16,900 --> 00:15:18,300 It to the Babylonian deportation. 273 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:23,600 So that's 1,000 BC to 586 BC. So, that's the time frame of 274 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,600 only 400 years and a little more than that. 275 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:31,000 And then the third group is from the Babylonian deportation to 276 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Christ so that will be 586 BC up to the birth of Christ around 3 277 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 or 2 BC. Depending on how your data. 278 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:41,600 It's a really interesting verse what's Matthew doing here. 279 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:45,500 He's got three groups of fourteen Generations in his 280 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:48,200 genealogy. Why? 281 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,600 Well, the Jews placed symbolic value on the number 14. 282 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,700 So it appears that Matthew has constructed his genealogy 283 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:59,300 deliberately to conform to a turn of three groups of 14, 284 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:03,700 there's different theories about what's the significance of 14. 285 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,700 But most Scholars agree that it has something to do with David. 286 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:12,000 And particularly there's a form of writing or of code words that 287 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,600 was in use at the time by the Jews called gamma Tria. 288 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:19,100 So gamer Tria is kind of like a numerical game that the Jews in 289 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:22,400 Jesus time would play with certain words and in the gamma 290 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,900 Tria system. Each letter of the Hebrew, 291 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:29,400 alphabet is assigned a number and Letters in the word, David 292 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:33,800 turns out, if you take the word, the Hebrew, letters for the 293 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:38,400 word, David, on the chemistry system, they add up to 14 and 294 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,900 most Jews would have known this. On top of that. 295 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,300 If you look at the genealogy has constructed, David is the 14th 296 00:16:46,300 --> 00:16:48,700 individual who's listed really interesting. 297 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:52,100 So, by having Jesus arrived, at the end of three sets of 298 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,500 fourteen generations, and by having David as the 14th 299 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:00,000 individual in his list here, Yeah, it seems that Matthew is 300 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,100 really highlighting the role of David and his link to Jesus. 301 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:04,599 Perhaps he's saying something like this. 302 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,300 Jesus is the Thrice davidic son of David. 303 00:17:09,099 --> 00:17:12,000 That seems to be the kind of the game that Matthew is playing 304 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,900 here. Remember, he's writing to Jews 305 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:16,800 and Jews would be really interested in this geometry, a 306 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,900 sort of stuff also in the Book of Revelation, if you're 307 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,800 interested in these the geometry and the codewords it appears 308 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,700 that in the Book of Revelation, when it's the number 666, It 309 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:31,600 appears to begin metria and in particular, it seems to be from 310 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,900 the word season Nero that translates to 666 on the 311 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:39,000 geometry, our system, so that's really interesting. 312 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,600 So, that means Matthew, if this is the right interpretation, 313 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,200 that means Matthew, his deliberately left out, certain 314 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,500 Generations. He obviously hasn't listed all 315 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:52,500 of the individuals in this family tree or even in this line 316 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,900 from Abraham to Jesus, his obviously left out. 317 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:59,900 Many of them, he's just using Father and Son in a loose sense 318 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:03,300 to mean descendant. So the real list if you was to 319 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:05,900 include all of them would be a whole lot longer, but he's using 320 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:08,200 Father and Son in this sense of descendant. 321 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,000 So that's the end of our face. Mating text today. 322 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I hope you learned something new. 323 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,400 Obviously, there's a whole lot more. 324 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,600 You could say about a lot of the individuals in this genealogy 325 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,800 and you can have a look at that if you dive into some 326 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,500 commentaries. But hopefully, this gives you a 327 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,600 starting point if you want to hear the next section of text 328 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,300 that is read on December 18th every year. 329 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,900 Let's now turn to the catechism to see what it has to say about 330 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:32,000 this passage. And there's just one brief 331 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,800 reference here which is paragraph 437 about Christ. 332 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,300 God called Joseph to take Mary as your wife for that, which is 333 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,800 Conceived in her is of the holy spirit, so that Jesus, who is 334 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,600 called Christ should be born of Joseph spouse into the Messianic 335 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:52,900 lineage of David. So that last part here, the 336 00:18:52,908 --> 00:18:56,500 Messianic lineage of David, that's clearly what Matthew is 337 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:58,400 trying to highlight in his genealogy? 338 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,500 Thanks for listening today. If you found it really 339 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:03,500 interesting, if you think there's others in your life, who 340 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,200 would benefit from hearing this podcast, please share it with 341 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,200 them. 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