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The book of Matthew—and thus, the New Testament—begins with the remarkable genealogy of Jesus. Genealogies make tough reading, but put yourself in the writer’s position: Matthew wants to prove to his Hebrew people that Jesus is their long-awaited Messiah. Jesus’s ancestry is the logical place to start.  “The historical record of Jesus Christ, the SonContinue reading “Today’s Math Problem. Matthew 1:1, 17.”