According to Matthew 1:16, Joseph's father was Jacob, but Luke says that his father was Heli.
AnswerThere are two genealogies in the New Testament, and so there are two answers.In Matthew's Gospel, St Joseph's father was called Jacob.In Luke's Gospel, St Joseph's father was called Heli.
AnswerThere are two genealogies in the New Testament, and so there are two answers.In Matthew's Gospel, St Joseph's father was called Jacob.In Luke's Gospel, St Joseph's father was called Heli.
No, they are two different people. Joseph lived in the Old Testament times (see Genesis) and Joseph lived in New Testament times. (Joseph was not really the father of Jesus, God was, but Joseph was only his earthly father.)
Oh honey, no. Joseph, the husband of Mary and earthly father of Jesus, is not the same Joseph who was Jacob's son sold into slavery in the Old Testament. Different Josephs, different stories. Keep those biblical timelines straight, darling.
The New Testament.
No, they would have lived in entirely different periods, centuries apart. However the author of Matthew's Gospel drew clear parallels between them, even assigning the name Jacob to the father of Joseph, husband of Mary, in line with the Old Testament Joseph (Joseph's father was called Heli in Luke's Gospel). These parallels are no doubt the cause of some confusion in modern times.
Type your answer here... St. Joseph wrote no letter that made it into the New Testament. Although he was a hugely important figure (to be Jesus' adopted earthly father, there's responsibility for you), we have no preserved writings from Joseph.
Probably neither. New Testament scholars say that neither genealogy, in Matthew or Luke, is likely to be historically correct. The author of Matthew's Gospel chose the name 'Jacob', because the father of the Old Testament Joseph was also called Jacob - he was trying to draw parallels between Moses and Jesus. The reason the author of Lukechose the name 'Heli' for Joseph's father is unclear. It is because of this contradiction that some modern theologians say that Jacob was Joseph's father and that Heli was Mary's father (in spite of Luke 3:23).
Joseph in the new testament was a carpenter by profession.
The New Testament tells us that Jesus was buried in a new tomb owned by Joseph of Arimathea.
testament ^ it's there!
Joseph son of Jacob (Matthew's Gospel) or Joseph son of Heli (Luke's Gospel) is the father of Jesus in the gospels. Joseph of Arimathea was the rich man who buried Jesus in his own tomb. Some say that by doing so, Joseph of Arimathea was filling the role expected of a father in Jewish tradition.