With one or two exceptions, these are names of persons of little or no note. The later ones were persons altogether obscure and insignificant. Our …

Pseudo-Chrysostom: After the exile, he lists Jeconiah again, as he had now become a private person.

Matthew’s chief aims in including the genealogy are hinted at in the first verse—namely, to show that Jesus Messiah is truly in the kingly line of …

(See Gill on Matthew 1:13).

Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe the chief intention. It is not a needless genealogy. It is not a vainglorious one, as those of gr…

Here is related the third series of fourteen in Christ’s generation, which proceeds through private persons. Concerning this Jechonias, as was said…