And Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob. The final pre-Joseph generation approaches. Matthan and Jacob are the grandfather and father of the man who will be named as Jesus' legal father. The genealogy is narrowing from the vast sweep of Israel's history — Abraham, the patriarchs, the kings, the exile, the restoration — down to a single family in a small Galilean town. The cosmic story is about to locate itself in one carpenter's household. Luke 2:4 will confirm the Davidic descent of this family when Joseph travels to Bethlehem for the census, to the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.

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