Matthew 1:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 1:1-17

Concerning this genealogy of our Saviour, observe, I. The title of it. It is the book (or the account, as the Hebrew word sepher, a book, sometimes signifies) of the generation of Jesus Christ, of his ancestors according to the flesh; or, It is the narrative of his birth. It is Biblos Geneseos?a book of Genesis. The Old Testament begins with the book of the generation of the world, and it is its glory that it does so; but the glory of the New Testament herein excelleth, that it begins with the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 1:1-17

1:1-17 This is the record of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob. Jacob begat Judah and his brothers. Judah begat Phares and Zara, whose mother was Thamar. Phares begat Esrom. Esrom begat Aram. Aram begat Aminadab. Aminadab begat Naasson. Naasson begat Salmon. Salmon begat Booz, whose mother was Rachab. Booz begat Obed, whose mother was Ruth. Obed begat Jesse. Jesse begat David, the king. David begat... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 1:1-17

There is something symbolic of the whole of human life in the way in which this pedigree is arranged. It is arranged in three sections, and the three sections are based on three great stages in Jewish history. The first section takes the history down to David. David was the man who welded Israel into a nation, and made the Jews a power in the world. The first section takes the story down to the rise of Israel's greatest king. The second section takes the story down to the exile to Babylon.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 1:1-17

This passage stresses two special things about Jesus. (i) It stresses the fact that he was the son of David. It was, indeed, mainly to prove this that the genealogy was composed. The New Testament stresses this again and again. Peter states it in the first recorded sermon of the Christian Church ( Acts 2:29-36 ). Paul speaks of Jesus Christ descended from David according to the flesh ( Romans 1:3 ). The writer of the Pastoral Epistles urges men to remember that Jesus Christ, descended... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 1:1-17

By far the most amazing thing about this pedigree is the names of the women who appear in it. It is not normal to find the names of women in Jewish pedigrees at all. The woman had no legal rights; she was regarded, not as a person, but as a thing. She was merely the possession of her father or of her husband, and in his disposal to do with as he liked. In the regular form of morning prayer the Jew thanked God that he had not made him a Gentile, a slave, or a woman. The very existence of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 1:13-15

And Zorobabel begat Abiud ,.... The children of Zorobabel are said in 1 Chronicles 3:19 , to be Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister, but no mention is made of Abiud: he seems to be the same with Meshullam the eldest son, who might have two names; nor is this unlikely, since it was usual, especially about the time of the Babylonish captivity, for men to have more names than one, as may be observed in Daniel and others, Daniel 1:7 where they went by one, and in Judea by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 1:1-17

JESUS THE CHRIST BY HUMAN ANCESTRY , (Parallel passage: Luke 3:23-38 .) read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 1:1-17

The introduction. I. THE TITLE . 1 . It is a book ; but it is not, like other books, the product of human thought. It presents to us a life not like other lives. That life stands alone in its beauty, purity, tenderness, in the glory of its unearthly holiness, in the majesty of its Divine self-sacrifice. It stands alone in its claims; it claims to be the great example, the one pattern life, the Light of the world. It claims to be a revelation of a new life; it offers a gift of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 1:1-17

The pedigree. "The book of the genealogy," etc. This is not the general title of the First Gospel, but rather the particular title of these sixteen or seventeen verses. The scroll, or writing of divorcement, which the Talmudists say consisted exactly of" twelve lines," is called a biblion , or "book" ( Matthew 19:7 ). So the "book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ" may be understood to describe the single skin on which the words immediately before us were originally written. Vitringa... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 1:13

And Zorobabel ( Zerubbabel , Revised Version) begat Abiad . Here the two lines of pedigree in St. Matthew and St. Luke seem tc separate, and not to converge again till we come to Matthan (or Matthat), the grandfather of Joseph, which name is common to both. The Bishop of Bath and Wells has shown some reason for supposing that Rhesa , mentioned in St. Luke as Zerubbabel's son, is merely a title signifying "a chief," and also for identifying Hananiah, who is called a son of... read more

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