Matthew 1:1-16: The Genealogy and the Virgin Birth of Christ
You all know the New Testament passage. The one that possibly only gets read (or skipped through) in many churches around Christmas time. The one most of us tend to get bogged down in like many similar ones from the Old Testament. You know the passage: the "begat" passage, the genealogy of Jesus Christ through the line of King David, beginning with the patriarch Abraham (Abram). Not exactly the kind of bible reading for family devotions for most folks either, right?
But wait! As a discerning New Testament Greek student, one can find a startling "jewel" near the end of this potentially "ho-hum" biblical census of begaters and begatees. Remembering, of course, what my New Testament seminary professor once reminded me, that, "We don't get our theology from Greek grammar; we get our theology from the whole teaching of scripture," I still find it exciting and encouraging to discover what the last verse of this text reveals.
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