Danette Slotnick: Because they were written YEARS after anything supposedly happened....by many different authors at many different times. The bible.....a work of plagiarized fiction.
Keven Woodington: It's possible that Jacob who begat Joseph died and that a relative, perhaps an uncle on Joseph's mother's side named Heli adopted Joseph who became his son.Joseph, which was the son of HeliJacob begat Joseph...Show more
Leora Klingelhoets: Sorry, but the answer IS that Luke gives Mary's Genealogy, just applying the custom of taking Joseph into Heli's family by marriage.You may not like that answer, in fact you clearly do not, but nevertheless that is the fact of the matter.An interesting side note is that following the destruction of The Temple in AD 70, all the official genealogies of Judaism were destroyed, and no lineage could then be proven for messiah. This of course is no problem because He already came, but it does give the Jews a tremendous headache!!! ...Show more
Charis Deguzman: They can't even agree on josephs father.And why joseph? I thought joseph wasn't the father.
Billie Bratchett: They claim, with no evidence whatsoever, that one is Mary's and that "son" really means "son in law."The real story is that the two gospels were written independently and neither author checked with the other before inventing a genealogy that had Jesus being a descendant of David.That itself is rather silly, because the Jewish prophecy of a king coming from the House of David assumes that the Messiah would be an ordinary man with a human father. They got a bit mixed up when they combined the Jewish prophecies with the pagan "son of a god" bit and provided a genealogy that was meaningless in the story they started promoting later....Show more
Rodolfo Merel: You've heard the saying, "When you marry a woman, you marry her family," right? This concept was very strongly applied in ancient Israel. Joseph is considered the! son of Mary's father Heli in Luke's genealogy. Likewise, Mar! y would be accurately called the daughter of Jacob. Marriage back then included all the rights and passages of adoption. A man didn't just gain a wife; his parents gained a daughter, and her parents gained a son. That was part of the reason that a woman widowed without a child was first offered to her husband's brother. It was so that she could remain a daughter of the family she married into. It's an inheritance thing.I like Luke's genealogy of Mary's line because it demonstrates that Jesus is not just a descendant of Judah, the tribe of kings, but He is also from the Levitical line, making Him eligible for the priesthood (His cousin John was a Levite). Of course, He's already a "priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."...Show more
Alise Rutgers: One is Mary's lineage and the other is Joseph's.They were related to each other, but it was the custom to record genealogies by the fathers' names.
Jefferson Sarson: Matthew gives Joseph's genealogy.Luke give! s Mary's genealogy.
Dallas Bartolini: Some of the answers I'm seeing from Christians remind me of Spinal Tap's Nigel:"...they all go up to 11...""...why not just make ten a little a louder....""These go up to 11."
Star Gollnick: As Thomas Payne said (circa 1770), 'They can't both be right, so I must question if either of them is'Just one of many contradictions in the bible, see below.
Anibal Scheid: Because English doesn't translate people's names. Luke was written to the Greeks in Greek, Matthew was written to the Israelites in Hebrew. Greek at that time at least did translate people's names, so this is why the names doesn't match up.
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