Gospel according to Matthew 1

¹ A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:[*a]

² Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

³ Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, Tamar being their mother, Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,

⁴ Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,

⁵ Salmon was the father of Boaz, Rahab being his mother, Boaz was the father of Obed, Ruth being his mother, Obed was the father of Jesse;

⁶ and Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife,

⁷ Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa,

⁸ Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Azariah,

⁹ Azariah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

¹⁰ Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah;

¹¹ and Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers. Then the deportation to Babylon took place.

¹² After the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

¹³ Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,

¹⁴ Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud,

¹⁵ Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob;

¹⁶ and Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.

¹⁷ The sum of generations is therefore: fourteen from Abraham to David; fourteen from David to the Babylonian deportation; and fourteen from the Babylonian deportation to Christ.

¹⁸ This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph;[*b] but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

¹⁹ Her husband Joseph; being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally.

²⁰ He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit.

²¹ She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save[*c] his people from their sins.’

²² Now all this took place to fulfil the words spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

²³ ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel,[*d] a name which means ‘God-is-with-us’.

²⁴ When Joseph woke up he did what the angel of the Lord had told him to do: he took his wife to his home

²⁵ and, though he had not had intercourse with her, she gave birth to a son; and he named him Jesus.