Chris Davis, the pastor of the church, took as his text the first 17 verses of the Gospel of Matthew, known as the genealogy of Jesus. Those verses, a long list of names that ties one generation ...

Of the four evangelists, Matthew was unique in tracing Jesus’ lineage, Chapter 1:1-17: “1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. “2 Abraham was the ...

And it's very important that Jesus for Matthew is fully a man from Israel. Therefore, Matthew begins his gospel by taking all the genealogy of Jesus; he wanted to show that Jesus was the son of ...