[quote='teaearlgreyhot' pid='350787' dateline='1350574803']
It doesn't say that. You're reading into the text that it means Mary's line.
It doesn't say that. You're reading into the text that it means Mary's line.
Quote:It does that is why I told you to go back and look at what was written in Luke 3.No jew does this. This letter was orginally written to theolophus. (Luke's master) As theolophus was not a Jew. which meant he would have seen the need to look past the legal aspects of Jewish law that pronounced Jesus as a decendant of david through Joseph. Since Jesus was still connected to david through marry the phrophesy would still be full filled.
being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
[quote]Here's what you haven't provided evidence for: a practice of tracing genealogies through the mother's line while mentioning only the father.