Matthew 1:16

And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. AND JACOB BEGAT JOSEPH, THE HUSBAND OF MARY, OF WHOM WAS BORN JESUS. From this it is clear that the genealogy here given is not that of Mary, but of Joseph; nor has this ever been questioned. And yet it is here studiously proclaimed that Joseph was not the natural, but only the legal father of our Lord. His birth of a virgin was known only to a few; but the acknowledged descent of his legal father from David secured that the descent of Jesus Himself from David should never be questioned. See the note at Matthew 1:20. WHO IS CALLED CHRIST, [ Christos (G5547)] - from the Hebrew [ maashiyach ...

16._Jesus, who is called Christ _By the surname _Christ, Anointed, _Matthew points out his office, to inform the readers that this was not a private person, but one divinely _anointed _to perform the office of Redeemer. What that anointing was, and to what it referred, I shall not now illustrate at great length. As to the word itself, it is only necessary to say that, after the royal authority was abolished, it began to be applied exclusively to Him, from whom they were taught to expect a full recovery of the lost salvation. So long as any splendor of royalty continued in the family of David, the kings were wont to be called χριστοί, _anointed. _(96) But that the fearful desolation which followed might not throw the minds of the godly into despair, it pleased God to appropriate the name of _Messiah, Anointed, _to the Redeemer alone: as is evident from Dan

1-17 Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe the chief intention. It is not a needless genealogy. It is not a vain-glorious one, as those of great men often are. It proves that our Lord Jesus is of the nation and family out of which the Messiah was to arise. The promise of the blessing was made to Abraham and his seed; of the dominion, to David and his seed. It was promised to Abraham that Christ should descend from him, Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18; and to David that he should descend from him, 2 Samuel 7:12; Psalms 89:3; Psalms 132:11; and, therefor...

Verse Matthew 1:16. _JESUS, WHO IS CALLED CHRIST._] As the word Χριστος _Christ_, signifies the anointed or anointer, from χριω, to _anoint_, it answers exactly to the Hebrew משיח _mashiach_, which we pronounce _Messiah_ or _Messias_; this word comes from the root משח _mashac_, signifying the same thing. As the same person is intended by both the Hebrew and Greek appellation, it should be regularly translated The Messiah, or The Christ; whichever is preferred, the demonstrative article should never be omitted. _Priests, prophets_, and _kings_, among the Jews, were _anointed_ in order to the legitimate exercise of their respective offices. Hence the word Χριστος _Christ_, or משיח _Mashiach_, became a name of _dignity_, and often signified the same as _king_. See...

These verses contain the genealogy of Jesus. Luke also Luke 3 gives a genealogy of the Messiah. No two passages of Scripture have caused more difficulty than these, and various attempts have been made to explain them. There are two sources of difficulty in these catalogues. * Many names that are found in the Old Testament are here omitted; and, * The tables of Matthew and Luke appear in many points to be different. From Adam to Abraham Matthew has mentioned no names, and Luke only has given the record. From Abraham to David the two tables are alike. Of course there is no difficulty in reconciling these two parts of the tables. The difficulty lies in that part of the genealogy from David to Christ. There they are entirely different. They are manifestly different lines. Not only are the names different, but Luke has mentioned,

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 1:1 JESUS THE CHRIST BY HUMAN ANCESTRY, (Parallel passage: Luke 3:23.) MATTHEW 1:1 THE BOOK OF THE GENERATION. As St. Matthew was writing only for Jews, and they, by reason of their Old Testament prophecies, looked for the Messiah to be born of a certain family, he begins his Gospel with a pedigree of Jesus. In this he mentions, by way of introduction, the two points to which his countrymen would have special regard—the descent of Jesus from David, the founder of the royal line, him in whose descendants the Ruler of Israel must

AND JACOB BEGAT JOSEPH,.... According to an old tradition mentioned by p Epiphanins, this Jacob, the father of Joseph, was named Panther, and which name perhaps is originally Jewish; and it may be observed, that Joseph is sometimes called by the Jewish writers Pandera q, and Jesus בן פנדירא, the son of Pandira r. It has created some difficulty with interpreters that Jacob should be here said to beget Joseph, when Joseph in Luke is said to be the son of Eli. Some have thought Joseph's father had two names, one was Jacob, and the other Eli; others take them to be two different persons, and suppose that Joseph was the natural son of the one, and the legal son of the other, either by marriage, or by adoption, or by the law of the brother's wife, Deuteronomy 25:5. But the truth of the matter is, that not Joseph, but Jesus, is by Luke called the son of Eli, as will be made to appear in its p

SIX MARYS Six Marys are to be distinguished in the New Testament: (1) the mother of Jesus; always clearly identified by the context. (2) Mary Magdalene, a woman of Magdala, "out of whom went seven demons" (Luke 8:2) She is never mentioned apart from the identifying word "Magdalene." (3) The mother of James (called "the less," (Mark 15:40) and Joses, the apostles. A comparison of; (John 19:25); (Matthew 27:56); (Mark 15:40) establishes the inference that this Mary, the mother of James the less, and of Joses was the wife of Alphaeus ...

MATTHEW 1:16 to.n a;ndra Mari,aj( evx h-j evgennh,qh VIhsou/j o` lego,menoj Cristo,j {A} There are three principal variant readings: (1) “and Jacob begot Joseph _the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ,_” is supported by a wide representation of textual families in early Greek and versional witnesses, including î1 a B C W vg syrp, h, pal copsa, (bo) geo. (2) “and Jacob begot Joseph, _to whom being betrothed the virgin Mary bore Jesus, who is called Christ,”_ is supported by several Greek and Old Latin witnesses (Q ¦13 _l_ 547 ita, (b), c, (d), g1, (k), q). Similar to this are the readings of the C...

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. The King and the Offer of the Kingdom. Chapter s 1-12. _ 1. Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham. (Matthew 1:1 .) 2. From Abraham to David. (Matthew 1:2 .) 3. From David to the Captivity. (Matthew 1:6 .) 4. From the Captivity to the Birth of Christ. (Matthew 1:12) 5. The Birth of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 1:18 .)_ CHAPTER 1 The first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is divided into two parts. In the first to the seventeenth verse we find the genealogy of Jesus Christ, and in the last