Luke 3:26

23-38 Matthew's list of the forefathers of Jesus showed that Christ was the son of Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth are blessed, and heir to the throne of David; but Luke shows that Jesus was the Seed of the woman that should break the serpent's head, and traces the line up to Adam, beginning with Eli, or Heli, the father, not of Joseph, but of Mary. The seeming differences between the two evangelists in these lists of names have been removed by learned men. But our salvation does not depend upon our being able to solve these difficulties, nor is the Divine authority of the Gospels at all weakened by them. The list of names ends thus, "Who was the son of Adam, the son of God;" that is, the offspring of God by creation. Christ was both the son of Adam and the Son of God, that he might be a proper Mediator between God and the sons of Adam, and might bring the sons of Adam to...

See, on this genealogy, the notes at Matthew 1:1....

EXPOSITION LUKE 3:1 THE BAPTISM OF JOHN. LUKE 3:1 NOW IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS CAESAR. St. Luke's Gospel is framed after the model of approved histories. He commenced with an elaborate rhetorical preface, most carefully worded, stating, in a few well-chosen sentences, the reasons which had induced him to undertake the work. He then (Luke 1:5) skillfully wove into the text of his narrative one or more original documents; these he translated, preserving, with great art, as closely as possible, the spirit, and oftentimes the very words, of his original authority. Now, in this

WHICH WAS THE SON OF MAATH,.... Surnamed Aser, who governed nine years: WHICH WAS THE SON OF MATTATHIAS; called Eli Matathias, who governed twelve years: WHICH WAS THE SON OF SEMEI; and named Abner Semei, who governed eleven years: WHICH WAS THE SON OF JOSEPH; called Joseph the first, who governed seven years: WHICH WAS THE SON OF JUDA; who, according to the same writer, must be Judas, surnamed Hyrcanus the first, who governed fourteen years....

ARPHAXAD Arphaxad. (Genesis 10:22)....

II. THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS MINISTRY -- CHAPTER 3-4:13 CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Ministry of John the Baptist. (Luke 3:1 .)_ 2. His Testimony to Christ and his Imprisonment. (Luke 3:15 .) 3. The Baptism of the Lord Jesus. (Luke 3:21 .) 4. The Genealogy of Mary, the Mother of our Lord. (Luke 3:23 .) Luke 3:1 Eighteen more years of silence follow. It is broken by the voice of the forerunner, John, who preached at Jordan the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. He is not reported here preaching “the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” He

THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS (_cf._ Matthew 1:1 *). The words as was supposed are perhaps from a later hand than that which first compiled the pedigree. Jesus here descends from David, not through Solomon (Matthew 16 f.) but through Nathan. There are other differences; the most noteworthy is that Lk. with characteristic universality goes back beyond Abraham to Adam, the son of God. Jesus is the second Adam (Romans 5:14; 1 Corinthians 15:22; 1 Corinthians 15:45). Luke 3:23. when he began: the words to teach are not in the Gr.

THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...

The Baptism of Jesus. The Genealogy 21. _Now when all the people were baptized_ The expression (which is peculiar to St Luke) seems to imply that on this day Jesus was baptized _last_; and from the absence of any allusion to the multitude in this and the other narratives we are almost forced to conjecture that His baptism was in a measure private. St Luke's narrative must be supplemented by particulars derived from St Matthew (Matthew 3:13-17), who alone narrates the unwillingness of the Baptist, and the memorable conversation between him and Jesus; and St Mark (Mark 1:9-11) mentions that Jesus went into the river, and that it was He who first saw the cleaving heavens, and the Spirit descending. _Jesus also being baptized_ Our Lord Himself, in reply to the objection of the

THE BAPTISM OF JESUS. THE GENEALOGY...