Well may our hearts melt at the memory of David and Bathsheba! The fruit of their unholy union died, but after repentance, she who “had been the wi…

The Evangelist has now finished the first fourteen generations and has come to the second, which consists of royal figures. Beginning with David, w…

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 …

And Solomon begat Roboam
Called Rehoboam, (1 Kings 11:43) of Naamah an Ammonitess, ([Reference 1 Kings 1…

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…

Having presented the genealogical lineage of the ancestors, which pa ed through the Patriarchs, here the Evangelist presents the lineage of the fat…