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1:1  This is the family history, the genealogy, of Jesus the Anointed, the coming King. You will see in this history that Jesus is descended from King David, and that He is also descended from Abraham.
1:2  Abraham was the father of Isaac; Isaac was the father of Jacob; Jacob was the father of Judah and of Judah’s 11 brothers;
1:3  Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (and Perez and Zerah’s mother was Tamar); Perez was the father of Hezron; Hezron was the father of Ram;
1:4  Ram was the father of Amminadab; Amminadab was the father of Nahshon; Nahshon was the father of Salmon;
1:5  Salmon was the father of Boaz (and Boaz’s mother was Rahab); Boaz was the father of Obed (his mother was Ruth, a Moabite woman who converted to the Hebrew faith); Obed was the father of Jesse;
1:6  and Jesse was the father of David, who was the king of the nation of Israel. David was the father of Solomon (his mother was Bathsheba, and she was married to a man named Uriah);
1:7  Solomon was the father of Rehoboam; Rehoboam was the father of Abijah; Abijah was the father of Asa;
1:8  Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat; Jehoshaphat was the father of Joram; Joram was the father of Uzziah;
1:9  Uzziah was the father of Jotham; Jotham was the father of Ahaz; Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah;
1:10  Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh; Manasseh was the father of Amon; Amon was the father of Josiah;
1:11  Josiah was the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, and Josiah’s family lived at the time when God’s chosen people of Israel were deported from the promised land to Babylon.
1:12  After the deportation to Babylon, Jeconiah had a son, Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel;
1:13  Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud; Abiud was the father of Eliakim; Eliakim was the father of Azor;
1:14  Azor was the father of Zadok; Zadok was the father of Achim; Achim was the father of Eliud;
1:15  Eliud was the father of Eleazar; Eleazar was the father of Matthan; Matthan was the father of Jacob;
1:16  Jacob was the father of Joseph, who married a woman named Mary. It was Mary who gave birth to Jesus, and it is Jesus who is the Savior, the Anointed One.
1:17  Abraham and David were linked with 14 generations, 14 generations link David to the Babylonian exile, and 14 more take us from the exile to the birth of the Anointed.
1:18  So here, finally, is the story of the birth of Jesus the Anointed (it is quite a remarkable story): Mary was engaged to marry Joseph, son of David. They hadn’t married. And yet, some time well before their wedding date, Mary learned that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
1:19  Joseph, because he was kind and upstanding and honorable, wanted to spare Mary shame. He did not wish to cause her more embarrassment than necessary.
1:20  Now when Joseph had decided to act on his instincts, a messenger of the Lord came to him in a dream. Messenger of the Lord: Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to wed Mary and bring her into your home and family as your wife. She did not sneak off and sleep with someone else—rather, she conceived the baby she now carries through the miraculous wonderworking of the Holy Spirit.
1:21  She will have a son, and you will name Him Jesus, which means “the Lord saves,” because this Jesus is the person who will save all of His people from sin.
1:22  Years and years ago, Isaiah, a prophet of Israel, foretold the story of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus:
1:23  A virgin will conceive and bear a Son, and His name will be Immanuel (which is a Hebrew name that means “God with us”).
1:24  Joseph woke up from his dream and did exactly what the messenger had told him to do: he married Mary and brought her into his home as his wife
1:25  (though he did not consummate their marriage until after her son was born). And when the baby was born, Joseph named Him Jesus, Savior.