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Quote: from sunnyb on 8:25 am on Sep. 3, 2002 In the first chaper of matthew there is the genealogy of Mary.  This is very easy to get except for verse Matt 1:16 "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband (greek: andra, aramai: gavra) of Mary…"  there is confusion here because of the way andra was translated here.  it should have been father.  There are two Josephs, one whose father is Heli (luke 3:23) …he is the husband of mary and the other joseph whose father was Jacob…the father of Joseph(the father of mary).     Hope this helps…bless you!

This is a common misconception. There is nothing to suggest that either of the geneologies given in Mathew or Luke are supposed to be of Mary’s line and no unbiased biblical scholar gives this notion any credence.

You have to admit that it would be very odd if every single version of the bible, all translated from the orginal Greek made the same error in translation.

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There is some good info to be found here

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/a/canon.html

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