From Abraham to David, the Matthew and Luke genealogies of Jesus of Nazareth are the same. Thereafter, the genealogies presented by Matthew and Luke are different.

The following table presents the two genealogies [from David's descendants to Jesus of Nazareth]; again, in descending order:

Matthew 1:6-16			Luke 3:23-31
	begat Solomon [by the wife of Uriah]	the son of Nathan
	begat Rehoboam	the son of Mattatha
	begat Abijah	the son of Menna
	begat Asa	the son of Melea
	begat Jehoshaphat	the son of Eliakim
	begat Joram	the son of Jonam
	begat Uzziah	the son of Joseph
	begat Jotham	the son of Judah
	begat Ahaz	the son of Simeon
	begat Hezekiah	the son of Levi
	begat Manasseh	the son of Matthat
	begat Amon	the son of Jorim
	begat Josiah [and his brothers]	the son of Eliezer
	begat Jeconiah	the son of Joshua
	begat Shealtiel	the son of Er
	begat Zerubbabel	the son of Elmadam
	begat Abihud	the son of Cosam
	begat Eliakim	the son of Addi
	begat Azor	the son of Melchi
	begat Zadok	the son of Neri
	begat Achim	the son of Shealtiel
	begat Eliud	the son of Zerubbabel
	begat Eleazar	the son of Rhesa
	begat Matthan	the son of Joanan
	begat Jacob	the son of Joda
	begat Joseph [the husband of Mary]	the son of Josech
	[by whom was born]	the son of Semein
	Jesus [called Christ]	the son of Mattathias
		the son of Maath
		the son of Naggai
		the son of Hesli
		the son of Nahum
		the son of Amos
		the son of Mattathias
		the son of Joseph
		the son of Jannai
		the son of Melchi
		the son of Levi
		the son of Matthat
		the son of Eli
		[supposedly the son of] Joseph
		Jesus

Some people have said They are partly the same because some of the names are the same. Actually, the same names found in both lines [from David's descendants to Jesus] belong to different people.

Question: Why is it that after David, we have two entirely different genealogies?

We have two problems, as follows:

1. Messiah was to come through the royal line.
2. Messiah was not to be of that line.

There are probably about nine billion people who have ever lived on the earth. [By the way, over six billion of them are living on earth right now.] Of those nine billion people, one Person was to be in the messianic line and, at the same time, He was not to be in that line. Of course, that Person is:

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