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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Genealogies are my favorite part of the Bible!” said no one ever. Devotionals usually skip them, for it can be hard to tease out ...

Jesus had a family tree. Do you know yours? A reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent. “Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar ...

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 ...

Q. Luke 2:4 says Joseph was of the lineage of David but it doesn’t mention Mary. So, how was Jesus a blood-descendant of David? Tonya Brown, Flight Safety at DFW Airport, Texas A. Matthew wrote to ...

How to sort out the many disparities between the genealogies of Matthew and Luke. Problems in Scripture work like speed bumps: They may be frustrating, and they can do damage to the unwary, but they ...

You can find today’s readings here. Thus the total number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen generations; from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen generations; from the Babylonian ...

There’s a passage of Scripture that I had never preached on or led a Bible study on until recently, because I thought it was uninteresting, unhelpful and unimportant. Its Jesus’ genealogy from Matthew ...