Sometimes we try to hide some members of our family from the public eye. Like crazy Cousin Eddie in a popular Christmas movie, some of our kin add a little too much color to the family tree. Isn’t it amazing, then, that God chooses to list some very colorful characters in some of the “begat” line-ups, particularly in Christ’s lineage? It’s as if He is saying even in this detail, “Everyone is important.”
HOW DO YOU RELATE?
Read Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38. Matthew, writing to the Jews, proclaimed Jesus the Messiah and Eternal King, while Luke, writing to the Gentiles, gave them an accurate, factual account of Jesus’ life and declared him fully human, yet without sin…the perfect Savior. Does the difference in these two lists cause spiritual confusion or conflict within you? If so, know that, even today, two different writers from two different perspectives would record things with their own personal twists based on their individual interests and experiences.
Mona Dukes
South Carolina
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