¹⁷ 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 ^(A)the Christ fourteen generations.

¹¹ and ^(A)Josiah the father of ^(B)Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

¹² And after the deportation to Babylon: ^(C)Jechoniah was the father of ^(D)Shealtiel,^[a] and ^(E)Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

^14 (A)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ^(B)10,000 captives, ^(C)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ^(D)except the poorest people of the land.

²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, ^(A)when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—

⁴¹ He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found ^(A)the Messiah” (which means Christ).

^2 (A)Now when John heard ^(B)in prison about the deeds of ^(C)the Christ, he sent word by ^(D)his disciples