At the beginning of his Gospel, Matthew the apostle shows that Jesus of Nazareth possessed the proper pedigree to be the promised Messiah. Specifically, he presents evidence that Joseph, Jesus’ father ...

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 ...

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 ...

And before that, Matthew’s Gospel takes great pains to elucidate the genealogy of Jesus, listing no fewer than 40 ancestors, from Father Abraham to King David and beyond. Ironically, of course (at ...

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 ...

At the Wednesday audience, the pontiff began his reflection on Christ's childhood. The meanings related to genealogy are explained with women's names at the start of the Gospel of Matthew. "No one ...