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Jehoiachin was the father of Shealtiel.
Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel.
13 Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud.
Abiud was the father of Eliakim.
Eliakim was the father of Azor.
14 Azor was the father of Zadok.
Zadok was the father of Akim.
Akim was the father of Eliud.
15 Eliud was the father of Eleazar.
Eleazar was the father of Matthan.
Matthan was the father of Jacob.
16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary.
Jesus,
Messiah.
Mary gave birth
who is called the
to
All those listed above include fourteen generations from Abraham to David,
fourteen from David to the Babylonian exile, and fourteen from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah.
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The Birth of Jesus the Messiah
18 This is how J
esus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to
be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still
a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit. 19 Joseph,
to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace
her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly.
20 As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.
“Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your
wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. 21 And she will
have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from
their sins.”
22 All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:
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“Look! The virgin will conceive a child!
She will give
birth to a son,
and they will call him
Immanuel,
which means ‘God
is with us.’ ”
24 When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded and
took Mary as his wife. 25 But he did not have sexual relations with her until
her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus.
Visitors from the East
Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod.
About that time some wise men from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem,
asking, 2 “Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose,
and we have come to worship him.”
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