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Yes, and both the accounts in Matthew and Luke are complimentary in nature, each providing information from different lines. Such investigation clears the misunderstandings surrounding the accounts, which are quite simple and straightforward when the customs of the times are correctly understood.

One such study as been undertaken by Dr Henry Morris who states that

"Joseph was clearly the son of Jacob (Matthew 1:16), so this verse [Luke 3:23] should be understood to mean "son-in-law of Heli." Thus, the genealogy of Christ in Luke is actually the genealogy of Mary, while Matthew gives that of Joseph. Actually, the word "son" is not in the original, so it would be legitimate to supply either "son" or "son-in-law" in this context [except that it is also missing from all other relationships in the list, other than the first, so that in each case "son" must be inferred from the first occurrence in the list]. Since Matthew and Luke clearly record much common material, it is certain that neither one could unknowingly incorporate such a flagrant apparent mistake as the wrong genealogy in his record. As it is, however, the two genealogies show that both parents were descendants of David---Joseph through Solomon (Matthew 1:7-15), thus inheriting the legal right to the throne of David, and Mary through Nathan (Luke 3:23-31), her line thus carrying the seed of David, since Solomon's line had been refused the throne because of Jechoniah's sin" [Dr. Henry M. Morris, The Defender's Study Bible (Iowa Falls, Iowa: World Publishing, Inc., 1995)].

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Yes. There are two genealogies of Jesus, in Matthew and Luke and both have been investigated. In the broader sense, the genealogy of Jesus also includes what we know of the family of Mary, his mother.

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Matthew's Gospel gives the genealogy of Jesus, back through Joseph, then his father Jacob, and through the male line back to the great Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, to King David and Abraham. This genealogy says that Salathiel was the son of the last king of Judah, Jechonias or Jehoahaz. From there, the genealogy more or less agrees with the Old Testament genealogy of the Judahite kings, except for the omission of three kings: Uzziah, Amaziah and Jehoash.

Luke's Gospel gives the genealogy of Jesus, back through Joseph, then his father Heli, and through the male line back to the great Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, to King David and Adam. This genealogy says that Salathiel was a commoner, the son of Neri, rather more probable in the light of the Old Testament story of the capture of Jerusalem. From there, the genealogy traces back through a line of commoners to Nathan, son of David. From here, the genealogy more or less agrees with the Old Testament genealogy of King David, except for the addition of Kainan as the son of Arphaxad and father of Shelah, and the insertion of Admin as the son of Aram.

As the genealogy of Luke's Gospel is clearly incompatible with that of Matthew's Gospel, some have said that it is the genealogy through Mary's line, however this ignores Luke 3:23: "...Joseph, which was the son of Heli." Others have said that Jacob and Heli were brothers and that, in line with ancient custom, when one died the other married his brother's wife and adopted his children, in this case Joseph. This would require the father of Jacob to be the same as the father of Heli, but this is not the case in the two gospels. Another contrived construct is that in Luke, Heli is actually the father-in-law of Joseph and that the genealogy goes back through a line of fathers-in-law to Nathan, son of David, at which point it switches without warning to a traditional father-son genealogy. This construct can be eliminated, since a genealogy through fathers-in-law would be unique in the Bible and probably in the entire ancient world, and would have achieved nothing, as Luke's readers would never have guessed what the genealogy was.

Another serious problem with the genealogies is the treatment of Zorobabel, the revered leader who led the Jews back from the Babylonian Exile. Clearly both evangelists wanted to include Zorobabel in the genealogy of Jesus but, while they knew the name of his father, they disagree on the name of his paternal grandfather. In the Old Testament, Haggai agrees that Zerubbabel was the son of Shealtiel (although spellings differ somewhat), as does Ezra. 1 Chronicles (3:19) spoils this, saying that Zerubbabel was the son of Pedaiah and nephew of Salathiel. Furthermore, 1 Chronicles names the sons of Zerubbabel, but not those mentioned by the two evangelists.

Both Matthew and Luke used numerology, with a pattern of sevens 'proving' that Jesus was the messiah.

Matthew demonstrated that there were 14 generations from Abraham to David; from David to Josiah; from Josiah to Jesus. This is why this author omitted the three kings mentioned above; he also had to be a little creative in placing David in two groups of fourteen.

Luke had great men occur in multiples of 7 generations starting from Adam, with: Enoch at 7; Abraham at 21; David at 35; Jesus at 77. He also had Joseph at 42 and 70. Adding Kainan and Admin to the Old Testament list was one way of helping to achieve this important numerology outcome.


Mark had portrayed Jesus as the Son of God from the time of his baptism, but if the birth of Jesus was to be narrated, then another issue had to be faced. For Jesus to be the Son of God in any literal sense, Mary had to be a virgin, which makes these genealogies redundant.


Mary

Christian tradition, based on non-canonical texts, says that the parents of Mary were called Joachim and Anne, or Hannah. One text, the Protoevangelium of James was written around 150 CE. The Infancy Gospel of Matthew, is another source for this legend, but it is itself based on the Protoevangelium of James and other apocryphal works. Since no one appears to have known of Joachim and Anne before 150 CE, it is safe to say that this lineage is fictional.

The Gospel of Luke says that Mary had a cousin, Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist. No other gospel mentioned this relationship, and the Luke nativity account is quite inconsistent with that of Matthew. Moreover, the Gospel of John says that John did not know Jesus before he baptised him. This gives good reason to believe that the author of Luke's Gospel was mistaken when he identified Elisabeth as a cousin of Mary.

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