Genealogy of Jesus

A reading from the Book of Matthew.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

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Preface of the Great Commentary of Cornelius a Lapide, St. Matthew's Gospel, Chapters One through Four.

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The Great Commentary of Cornelius a Lapide, St. Matthew's Gospel, Chapters One through Four, by Cornelius a Lapide, translated by Thomas Wilburley Mossman.

General Preface Concerning the Excellence and Majesty of the Four Gospels.

I proceed from the Old Testament to the New, from Solomon to Christ, as from a rivulet to a fountain, from Proverbs to Gospels, as from a river to the ocean of wisdom.

So we're not going to read each one in order But because in Chronological we go through the Bible in historical order as best as historians and theologians can tell, we're going to skip around and read very similar passages as told through the lens of the writers of each gospel.

So today, we will read Matthew chapter 1, and then we'll go back to the book of Luke, and we'll read chapter 2, verses 1 through 38.

Just a couple days left in the modern English version.

Let's jump in to Matthew chapter 1.

The genealogy of Jesus Christ.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

My name's Hunter, and we are reading through the Bible in chronological order as a single story.

And that story is all about Jesus.

It is a revelation of Him, and He has revealed to us the heart of the Father.

Today, September 24th, we are in the Gospel of Mark, the gospel of Luke, the gospel of John, and the gospel of Matthew.

Mark chapter 1.

Mark chapter 1.

This is the good news about Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God.

It began just as the prophet Isaiah had written.

The calf denotes St. Luke, who commences his gospel with the ancient priesthood, whose victim was a calf.

The man denotes St. Matthew, who begins with the human genealogy of Christ.

The eagle denotes St. John, who, soaring aloft from earth to heaven, balances himself like an eagle, and thunders forth, as it were, that divine exordium, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Deservedly does St. Denise the Areopagite, in his epistle to the same John, call him the son of the gospel, and his gospel itself the memory and renewal of that theology, which he drew from the Lord, as he lay upon his breast, and left to be held in his gospel by those who came after, like a ray of the sun.

The last thing I will mention is that St. Matthew made himself known to St. Bridget when she was praying at his tomb in the city of Malphi, and said to her, When I was writing my gospel, so intense was the heat of the divine flame which abode with me, that even if I had wished to keep silence I could not, because of that burning heat.

End of On the Versions of the Gospels and On the Title Prefixed to St. Matthew's Gospel Matthew chapter 1, verses 1 through 11 Of the Great Commentary of Cornelius Elipeti, St. Matthew's Gospel by Cornelius Elipeti This LibriVox recording is in the public domain St. Matthew's Gospel, chapter 1 1.

The genealogy of Christ from Abraham to Joseph 18.

He was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary when she was espoused to Joseph 19.