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The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Although absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as seen with Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation of the same name ...
Tertullian, on the other hand, argues that Jesus must have descended from David by blood through his mother Mary. [114] He sees Biblical support in Paul's statement that Jesus was "born of a descendant of David according to the flesh". [115] Affirmations of Mary's Davidic ancestry are found early and often. [116]
The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [6] [non-primary source needed] Matthew starts with Abraham, while Luke begins with Adam.{Luke 3:23-38} The lists are identical between Abraham and David but differ radically from that point.
Bonosus was a bishop who in the late 4th century held Mary had other children after Jesus, for which the other bishops of his province condemned him. [48] Important orthodox theologians such as Hippolytus [ 49 ] (170–235), Eusebius (260/265–339/340) and Epiphanius (c. 310/320–403) defended the perpetual virginity of Mary.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/AlamyIn the late nineteenth century British archaeologists Grenfell and Hunt were excavating an ancient trash heap near Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, when a young boy ...
[145] [146] In Luke 23:27–28 Jesus tells the women in multitude of people following him not to cry for him but for themselves and their children. [145] Once at Calvary (Golgotha), Jesus was offered wine mixed with gall to drink — usually offered as a form of painkiller. Matthew's and Mark's gospels state that he refused this. [145] [146]
The discovery of a coffin first made headlines in 2002 when researchers found an inscription that reads: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus."
Luke 9:10-17 described the location where Jesus fed five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, and Mark 8:22-26 reads it was the location Jesus also healed a blind man.