Genealogy of Jesus
Matthew opens his gospel by tracing Jesus's line forward from Abraham through David to Joseph. Luke runs the same territory in reverse, from Jesus back to Adam, and names Joseph's father as Heli rather than Matthew's Jacob. The two lists agree on almost nothing after David: Matthew follows the royal line through Solomon, Luke follows a different son, Nathan. This tree follows a reading nearly as old as the text itself, that Luke's genealogy is really Mary's, with Heli as her father rather than Joseph's. That's the split you'll see below David: two branches, Solomon's and Nathan's, that stay apart until Joseph marries Mary and the lines meet in Jesus.
Read the passages
Two independent genealogies, told from opposite ends — Matthew traces forward from Abraham to Jesus, Luke traces backward from Jesus to Adam.
Matthew 1:1–17
Luke 3:23–38
Matthew's Fourteens
Matthew 1:17 sums up its own genealogy as three sets of fourteen generations. The third set only names thirteen — Jeconiah, who ends the second set, is traditionally counted again to complete the third.
Generations as a Timeline
The same family tree as above, laid out left to right: one column per generation, oldest ancestors farthest right.