Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Luke 3:23-37

Luke 3:23 - 37

23 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, 24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, 25 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, 26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, 27 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,[e] the son of Neri, 28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, 29 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, 31 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon, 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, 38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

7 comments:

  1. Question:

    1. Why are these people different than the genealogy in Matthew?
    2. Who are all these people?

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  2. https://www.preceptaustin.org/luke-3-commentary says:

    John MacArthur on Messiah's "credentials" - Now the ancestry of Jesus is important, as I said, because it proves that He is not merely a self-appointed Messiah. The genealogy goes back to David and then it goes back to Abraham and then it goes back to Adam and then it goes back to God finally. This is the culmination of all redemptive history in this person Jesus. It starts with God through Adam, through Abraham, through David and right down to Jesus Himself. He is the culmination of human history as well as Israel's history. He is the fulfillment of God's redemptive purpose. He is the culmination of all who ever lived. He is the hope of all humanity and all humanity is inseparably and eternally connected to Him. The fate of everyone who ever lives is linked to Jesus.

    Thirty years of age - Ezekiel (interestingly called "son of man" throughout the book) began his ministry at age 30 (Ezek 1:1). Joseph was also 30 "when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt" (prime minister - Ge. 41:46) "David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years. (2 Sa 5:4). Thirty was also the age at which the priests began to serve.

    Warren Wiersbe - Luke interrupted his narrative at this point to give us a genealogy of Jesus. Matthew’s genealogy (Matt. 1:1–17) begins with Abraham and moves forward to Jesus, while Luke’s begins with Jesus and moves backward to Adam. Matthew gives us the genealogy of Joseph, the legal foster-father of Jesus, while Luke gives us the genealogy of His mother Mary. Luke 3:23 can be translated: “When He began His ministry, Jesus was about thirty years old (being supposedly the son of Joseph), the son of Heli [an ancestor of Mary].” Mary herself would not be mentioned because it was unusual for women to be named in the official genealogies.

    To the Jews, genealogies were critical. (1) Ancestry determined one's claim on land. (2) Ancestry determined claims to the right of inheritance. (3) Ancestry established the basis of taxation. (4) Any claim to the priesthood had to be verified by genealogy. (5) Any claim to royalty, any claim to being king, Messiah, would have to have been verified, would have to have been proven that this one claiming to be king had lineage directly from the great king who was David himself.

    And that is why the Jews kept...fastidious genealogical records. You remember in 586 B.C. Judah and Jerusalem was destroyed, the people were taken into captivity for seventy years and the nation really disintegrated at that point. But when they came back at the end of 70 years, one of the things they did along with rebuilding the temple, the city and the wall and reconstituting the nation was to get together all the genealogical records and they kept the records accurately from those ancient times through the captivity until all the records were destroyed in 70 A.D. When the Roman general Titus Vespasian destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. all of the records were destroyed. And today, much to the chagrin and sadness of the Jewish people, nobody knows their lineage because all the records have been destroyed. They can trace their lineage back into New Testament times, perhaps, but they cannot go beyond that because all the records were destroyed in the destruction of Jerusalem.

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  3. https://www.preceptaustin.org/luke-3-commentary continued:

    John MacArthur gives a lucid discussion of why Matthew's genealogy is through Joseph and Luke's genealogy is through Mary - it hinges especially on the fact that there are two grandfathers mentioned for Jesus.

    So in Matthew's genealogy you go back through Solomon to David. In Luke's genealogy you go back through Nathan to David. So you have two different lines. And you've got two grandfathers of Jesus, one being Jacob in the genealogy of Matthew, one being Eli in the genealogy of Luke. Both are royal lines because both come out of David. Everybody has two genealogies like that. One is maternal and one is paternal.

    Anybody who ascended to the throne got the legal right to the throne through his father, through his father. Even if there was an adoption the father still made that son a legal son by adoption. And Jesus could only receive the right to rule through His father. Genealogical records were traced through the males. In that line from Solomon there's a name of a man, Jeconiah. Jeconiah was cursed and the curse on Jeconiah is in Jeremiah 22:24-30 and it says, "Jeconiah is cursed and no son of his will ever sit on the throne of Israel, ever." That's interesting because that's Joseph's line. Isn't that amazing? No son of his ever did sit on the throne. Jesus was not the son of Joseph. He did receive the legal right but he was not the natural child. So the curse was intact.

    And so, here is the genealogy of Mary which Luke gives under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to prove not only does He have the legal right to rule through His father, but He has the blood of David in his veins because of His mother. So either way, He is a descendant of David. He can be King legally through Joseph. He can be King naturally through Mary.

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  4. https://www.preceptaustin.org/luke-3-commentary continued:

    MESSIAH'S FAMILY TREE:

    Note that "son" is not in Greek but added throughout this list. MacArthur makes a good point - It is added to help us but it could be grandson.

    (Joseph: Supposed father of Jesus)

    (Heli through Rhesa - nothing is known)

    Zerubbabel - Mt 1:12. Governor of Judea appointed by the Persians when the Jews returned from Babylonian exile. He supervised the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 3:2, 8).

    Shealtiel - Salathiel. Most modern English translations use the OT form of the name (Shealtiel, Ezra 3:2). 1 Chr 3:17 identifies Jeconiah as the father of Shealtiel. The judgment on Jeconiah’s line (Jer 22:30) may be reflected here.

    (Neri through Mattatha - nothing known)

    Nathan - 2Sa 5:14 1Ch 3:5 14:4 Zec 12:12 David's third son, born to him in Jerusalem (2 Sam 5:14); he is not to be confused with Nathan the prophet (2 Sam 7:2).

    Son of David (King David) - The mention of David begins a series of agreements with Matthew’s line.

    Son of Jesse - Ru 4:18-22 1Sa 17:58 20:31 1Ki 12:16 1Ch 2:10-15 Ps 72:20 Isa 11:1,2

    Obed - Mt 1:5. Ru +4:17. Nu 1:7. 2:3. 7:12. 1 Ch 2:11, 12

    Boaz (married Ruth in the book of Ruth) - Ruth; 1 Ki. 7:21; 1 Chr. 2:11; 1 Chr. 2:12; 2 Chr. 3:17

    Salmon - (Mentioned in various O.T. geneologies)

    Nahshon - Ex 6:23 (Mentioned in various O.T. geneologies)

    Amminadab - Hezron - (Some are mentioned in various O.T. geneologies, otherwise, not much is known).

    Perez - Ge 38:29 (short story about him and his brother being born. Perez stuck his hand out, they tied a string to it, but his brother was born first).

    Judah - Ge 29:35 49:8 (patriarch of the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes of Israel. He has short scenes in the story of Joseph).

    Jacob through Abraham - (there's several chapters in Genesis about them. Of course, Abraham is the patriarch of all Israel).

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  5. My notes on Jesus family tree - based on https://www.preceptaustin.org/luke-3-commentary continued:

    Terah and Nahor - father and grandfather of Abraham.

    Serug through Reu - in Genesis genealogy.

    Peleg - In his day the earth was divided.

    Heber through Arphaxad - in Genesis genealogy.

    Shem - One of the very few people to survive in Noah's boat. Shem was the father of the Semitic races.

    Noah - and the ark. He was a "preacher of righteousness".

    Lamech - in Genesis genealogy.

    Methuselah - Oldest man recorded in the Bible. If you add all the years up, he either died during the year of the flood, or died in the flood.

    Enoch - Didn't die. God took him up.

    Jared through Enos - in Genesis genealogy.

    Seth - Son of Adam and Eve after Cain and Abel were gone.

    Adam - First man, created in God's image. Sin entered the race of man via him (and Eve).

    God - Jesus, in His humanity, descended from God.

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  6. https://www.preceptaustin.org/luke-3-commentary continued:

    Why all of this? It's credentials. But can I just take four of the elements of it and sum up the person of Jesus?

    He is the Son of God. He goes all the way back to God. Adam was a son of God by creation. And when Adam was created he fully bore the image of God. He was a son of God, a real son of God like God designed men to be sons of God. He bore the image of God unmarred, unspoiled, unpolluted, uncorrupted until he fell into sin. And when Adam sinned, the original image of God was shattered, it was broken and no one has ever entered into the world a true son of God like Adam was, except Jesus.

    But He is not only Son of God, He's Son of Adam. He is every bit of what Adam is. He is fully Man in every sense, firmly anchored in heaven as a Son of God. He is also fully anchored to earth as Son of Man; God as to His deity, man as to His humanity.

    He is Son of God, son of Adam, deity and humanity. Then He is son of Abraham as to His nationality. That is He is the promised seed. When God made a promise to Abraham it was to a seed, Galatians 3:16 says, and He is the promised seed who will bring all Abrahamic blessing.

    And He is also Son of David as to royalty, the promised King who would usher in the glory of all the Davidic promise (cf 2 Sa 7:12, 13).

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  7. Questiosn and findings:

    1. Why are these people different than the genealogy in Matthew?

    Matthew's genealogy is through Joseph. Luke's is through Mary. They are both showing that Jesus was the son of David both through the father's line and the mother's. Joseph adopted Jesus, so it was important that he was a son of David. Joseph was not Jesus' father by blood, so it was important that Jesus was proved to be a son of David (via Mary).

    There was some speculation about Joseph's line being cursed because of the curse of Jeconiah, but it didn't seem to hold water, in my opinion.

    I've read speculation about Joseph's line being the kingly line and Mary's line being the priestly line. That doesn't seem to be holding up either (although here aunt Elizabeth and uncle were priests).

    2. Who are all these people?

    See previous posts.

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