18 Dec
Genealogies are not the most entertaining reading you can dive into. They do serve a purpose and they can reveal interesting ideas to us. Normally, they are there to legitimize an individual as an heir to a family or provide a connection to something in the past.
Matthew 1:1-17 is a genealogy of Jesus and there are a few notable issues. First, if you actually check the Biblical record, verse 17 can be disputed in its accuracy. There are actually a number of generations missing, but the intent of the author was not full accuracy, it was the idea of completion. Fourteen has a factor of seven, which in biblical numerology is related to completion and the author of Matthew was trying to show that God was in full control of the lineage of Jesus.