DOES Jesus have a secret line of descendants who are living today? It's an oddly appealing idea. We tend to think of ancestry in terms of bloodlines, in which some individuals are descended from ...

“Genealogies are my favorite part of the Bible!” said no one ever. Devotionals usually skip them, for it can be hard to tease out a good one-liner from a list of names. Preachers avoid them because ...

One can gather the importance of genealogy to religion and history by learning of the genealogy of Jesus as recorded in the book of Matthew in the Bible. While we know Jesus was one of the Trinity, he ...

Every year during Advent, we hear Matthews account of the genealogy of Jesus: A family record of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, ...

At the Christmas Vigil Mass, we take a journey through salvation history to recall once again the great gift that is the coming of Christ in the flesh. Saint Matthew, in his attempts to demonstrate ...

The events of Jesus’ birth were foretold in many prophecies in the Old Testament. A messiah was promised from the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, Judah, Jesse, and David. The prophecies came to pass as ...

The gospel, according to Matthew, Chapter 1 verses 1-17 narrates the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Genealogy simply means the family tree or the account of descent from ancestors, which we can term ...