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AnswerMatthew opens with his version of the genealogy of Joseph, in which he seeks to demonstrate that Jesus was predestined to be the Messiah, not only because he was descended via the royal line from King David, but also because numerology proved this, since there were fourteen generations: from Abraham to David; from David to Josiah; from Josiah to Jesus. To do this, he had to ignore 3 kings in the Old Testament and have David in the preceding (as 14) and following (as 1) groups, but not so Josiah. Matthew's genealogy also says that Joseph's father was Jacob, just like Joseph's father in the Old Testament, thus introducing the theme of the flight to Egypt.
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