In this three-week Advent study, we read through the Christmas story as found in Matthew 1-2. Our story begins with the genealogy of Jesus, continues with his birth as told through the eyes of Joseph, and ends with the visitation of the Magi. For the background of this study, I have used N.T. Wright’s Matthew for Everyone and Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth – The Infancy Narratives.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David and son of Abraham.
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 …
“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 …
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way . . .
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 …
This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt have I called my son.”