Dr. Robert Carter
The names listed as Jesus’s ancestors in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke often don’t match up. How could they both then be true?
When the New Testament was being compiled, no one ever tried to take these two genealogies and make them the same. No, they accepted them. They’re both in the Bible. They’re both true. The early church put them together so early that those people must have known something we don’t.
Now, several centuries later, we see the church fathers wrestling with the disagreement between Matthew and Luke. They came up with several possible solutions, that are still popular, but they didn’t know something was lost in transmission between the compilation of Matthew and Luke and their acceptance as being authoritatively true. Those earliest people assumed that they didn’t have a contradiction even though they had different name lists.
Let’s consider an unexpected explanation for these distinctions.
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