The prophecies came to pass as recorded in the New Testament, and the genealogy of Jesus can be found in Matthew 1:2-16 and Luke 3:23-38. Matthew began Jesus’ lineage with Abraham and named each ...

At the Christmas Vigil Mass, we take a journey through salvation history to recall once again the great gift that is the coming of Christ in the flesh. Saint Matthew, in his attempts to demonstrate ...

Introduction: The Gospel of Matthew opens with a genealogy that may seem, at first glance, to be a simple list of names. Yet Matthew 1:1–17 is carefully shaped and deeply theological. Matthew is not ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - If we look at Jesus’ genealogy as described in the Gospel of Matthew, we notice "the presence of foreign women" because, as Benedict XVI wrote, "through them the world ...

Both Matthew and Luke contain accounts of Jesus’ infancy. But they don’t describe all the same events. As a result, some have even accused Matthew and Luke of contradicting each other. What’s the true ...

It’s okay that most of us want to skip through the genealogy of Jesus—but we should still read it. In the first episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons, Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (Matt. 1:1 ...

The birth of Jesus gets far more attention than its role in the New Testament warrants. Christmas looms large in our culture, outshining even Easter in the popular mind. Yet without Matthew 1-2 and ...

N.T. Wright is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering ...

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born. Sacred originsWith its shepherds and wise ...