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Matthew
MATTHEW
God miraculously puts beautiful
baby Jesus in Mary's tummy.
The Ancestors of Jesus the Messiah
This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David* and of Abraham:
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob.
Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.
3 Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (whose
mother was Tamar).
Perez was the father of Hezron.
Hezron was the father of Ram.*
4 Ram was the father of Amminadab.
Amminadab was the father of Nahshon.
Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
5 Salmon was the father of Boaz (whose mother
was Rahab).
Boaz was the father of Obed (whose mother
was Ruth).
Obed was the father of Jesse.
6 Jesse was the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon (whose mother
was Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah).
7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam.
Rehoboam was the father of Abijah.
Abijah was the father of Asa.*
8 Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram.*
Jehoram was the father* of Uzziah.
9 Uzziah was the father of Jotham.
Jotham was the father of Ahaz.
Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh.
Manasseh was the father of Amon.*
Amon was the father of Josiah.
11 Josiah was the father of Jehoiachin* and his
brothers (born at the time of the exile to
Babylon).
12 After the Babylonian exile:
Jehoiachin was the father of Shealtiel.
Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel.
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud.
Abiud was the father of Eliakim.
Eliakim was the father of Azor.
14 Azor was the father of Zadok.
Zadok was the father of Akim.
Akim was the father of Eliud.
15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar.
Eleazar was the father of Matthan.
Matthan was the father of Jacob.
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband
of Mary.
Mary gave birth to Jesus, who is called the
Messiah.
17All those listed above include fourteen generations
from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the
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Babylonian exile, and fourteen from the Babylonian
exile to the Messiah.
The Birth of Jesus the Messiah
is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His
mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph.
But before the marriage took place, while she was
still a virgin, she became pregnant through the
power of the Holy Spirit. 19Joseph, her fiancé, was a
good man and did not want to disgrace her publicly,
so he decided to break the engagement* quietly.
20 As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,”
the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your
wife. For the child within her was conceived by the
Holy Spirit. 21 And she will have a son, and you are
to name him Jesus,* for he will save his people from
their sins.”
22All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message
through his prophet:
23 “Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give birth to a son,
and they will call him Immanuel,*
which means ‘God is with us.’”
24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of
the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.
25 But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.
18 This
Visitors from the East
Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during
the reign of King Herod. About that time some
wise men* from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem,
asking, 2 “Where is the newborn king of the Jews?
We saw his star as it rose,* and we have come to
worship him.”
3King Herod was deeply disturbed when he heard
this, as was everyone in Jerusalem. 4 He called a
meeting of the leading priests and teachers of religious law and asked, “Where is the Messiah supposed to be born?”
5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they said, “for this is
what the prophet wrote:
6 ‘And you, O Bethlehem in the land of Judah,
are not least among the ruling cities* of
Judah,
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1:1 Greek Jesus the Messiah, son of David. 1:3 Greek Aram, a variant
spelling of Ram; also in 1:4. See 1 Chr 2:9-10. 1:7 Greek Asaph, a
variant spelling of Asa; also in 1:8. See 1 Chr 3:10. 1:8a Greek Joram,
a variant spelling of Jehoram; also in 1:8b. See 1 Kgs 22:50 and note at
1 Chr 3:11. 1:8b Or ancestor; also in 1:11. 1:10 Greek Amos, a variant
spelling of Amon; also in 1:10b. See 1 Chr 3:14. 1:11 Greek Jeconiah,
a variant spelling of Jehoiachin; also in 1:12. See 2 Kgs 24:6 and note
at 1 Chr 3:16. 1:19 Greek to divorce her. 1:21 Jesus means “The
Lord saves.” 1:23 Isa 7:14; 8:8, 10 (Greek version). 2:1 Or royal
astrologers; Greek reads magi; also in 2:7, 16. 2:2 Or star in the east.
2:6a Greek the rulers.
