Bible genealogy contradiction? Bible experts!?

There are two genealogies in the New Testament. One is Jesus' lineage through Joseph, as you point out. The others is Jesus' lineage through Mary.

The lineage through Mary shows Jesus to be physically descended from the line of David, as is required for the Messiah. In the 1st century in Jerusalem, one recieved their birthright from their father. Being the son of someone meant you had their authority, their inheritance, and their power.

This always came via the father, and never the mother. Thus, Jesus receives from Joseph fatherly and spiritual lineage from David. ----- It's worth noting -- contrary to one very poorly informed answer -- that these genealogies were kept in the Jewish temple.

They were of the utmost importance to the Jewish people as they looked for their promised Messiah. Jews everywhere could easily have verified the information in the genealogies, when these accounts were written. When the Jewish temple was destroyed in 70 A.D., (15 to 20 years after the first of these gospels was written) the lineages were destroyed, as well.

As noted above: the kingly inheritance from David came through Joseph ... the adoption was needed because the physical descendants of Jeconiah (the king at the time of capture by Babylon) were cursed to never be on the throne. (1) It also goes back to Abraham because of the covenant promises the Almighty made to Abraham. Specifically that through him all the families of the world would be blessed which is fulfilled in the Messiah.

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