Matthew’s Infancy Narrative – Egypt
This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt have I called my son.”
This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt have I called my son.”
Behold Magi from the East came to Jerusalem saying: “Where is he who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship him.
“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David and son of Abraham.