Jesus' Genealogy

Jesus’ Genealogy
Matthew 1.1-17

In Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest, the hero is asked about his family background, and is forced to confess that he had lost both his parents. He had been found, as a tiny baby, in a handbag. The indignation that greets these revelations is one of the most famous (and funny) moments in all Wilde’s work. As one of them comments, ‘To lose one parent . . . may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’...

Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright