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Matthew wrote his Gospel and separated out the genealogical history of Jesus into 3 groups of 14 (self evident, IMHO). But the next question is why...and all the above is in play. However, Matthew has a more over-arching reason for separating the 42 (seeming) generations into 3 x 14 (and NOT 6X7).
While the number 14 has special symbolic reference to the allegorical sense of Mt 1:17, we might consider some historical implications of Matthew's implicit "month" of twenty-eight generations. Julian Year 28, by Julius Caesar's projection, should have been a leap year; that is, February should have had 29 days.
Matthew 1:17 does not say that there are 42 Generations between Abraham and Jesus. Matthew 1:1-16 gives a list of all the generations from Abraham to Jesus and then in verse 17 it simply highlights 3 sets of 14 generations to show some form of patterns of 14.
As for the differing generational counts, the men in Matthew's genealogy (with fewer generations) were having their listed sons later in their lifetimes than the men in Luke's genealogy. 27 generations of later-life fatherings can be fit next to 42 generations of earlier-life fatherings without too much difficulty: if the 42 fathers in Matthew ...
16 and Jacob [12] the father of Joseph [13], the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah [14]. OP: there are only 13 generations listed from Jechonias to Jesus Christ (Matthew 1 12-16). Actually, there are 14. OP: Instead of 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus, it appears there are less than 40 altogether.
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; Jesus (Jose) at 49. To do this, he had to insert his own fictitious people into the Old Testament list: Kainan at 13; Admin at 28.
Matthew 1:17: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations. The author of Luke made somewhat different adjustments, to have Jesus' ancestry fall into a pattern of ...
Why did it take 42 generations for Jesus to come? In Matthew's Gospel, there were: 14 generations from Abraham to David, inclusive; 14 generations from David to Josiah, inclusive; and 14 ...
A:Luke's Gospel gives 77 generations (inclusive) from Adam to Jesus, including 57 from Abraham to Jesus. Matthew's Gospel gives 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus, which implies 62 generations ...
The wisdom of God is riddle [1] and the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus Christ. Matthew teaches the methods to read prophecy by giving us a series of riddles : He says there are 42 generations in the genealogy, when there are only 41.