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The Ancestors of Jesus the Messiah
This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham:
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All those listed above include fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the Babylonian exile, and fourteen from the Babylonian exile to the Messiah.
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The crowd was amazed and asked, “Could it be that Jesus is the Son of David, the Messiah?”
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“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They replied, “He is the son of David.”
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Jesus responded, “Then why does David, speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit, call the Messiah ‘my Lord’? For David said,
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Since David called the Messiah ‘my Lord,’ how can the Messiah be his son?”
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Whose Son Is the Messiah?
Later, as Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple, he asked, “Why do the teachers of religious law claim that the Messiah is the son of David?
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Since David himself called the Messiah ‘my Lord,’ how can the Messiah be his son?” The large crowd listened to him with great delight.
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The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David!
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Whose Son Is the Messiah?
Then Jesus presented them with a question. “Why is it,” he asked, “that the Messiah is said to be the son of David?
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Since David called the Messiah ‘Lord,’ how can the Messiah be his son?”
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For the Scriptures clearly state that the Messiah will be born of the royal line of David, in Bethlehem, the village where King David was born.”
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David was looking into the future and speaking of the Messiah’s resurrection. He was saying that God would not leave him among the dead or allow his body to rot in the grave.
