1 This is the scroll of the lineage and birth[1] of Jesus,[2] the Anointed One, the son of David and descendant of Abraham.
2 Abraham had a son named Isaac, who had a son named Jacob, who had a son named Judah (he and his brothers became the tribes of Israel).
3 Judah and Tamar[3] had twin sons, Perez and Zerah. Perez had a son named Hezron, who had a son named Ram,
4 who had a son named Amminadab, who had a son named Nashon,
5 who had a son named Salmon, who, along with Rahab, had a son named Boaz. Boaz and Ruth had a son named Obed, who was the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse had a son named David, who became the king.
7 Then David and Bathsheba[4] had a son named Solomon, who had a son named Rehoboam, who had a son named Abijah, who had a son named Asa,
8 who had a son named Jehoshaphat, who had a son named Joram, who had a son named Uzziah,
9 who had a son named Jotham, who had a son named Ahaz, who had a son named Hezekiah,
10 who had a son named Manasseh, who had a son named Amos,[5] who had a son named Josiah,
11 who was the father of Jeconiah.[6]It was during the days of Jeconiah and his brothers that Israel was taken captive and deported to Babylon.
12 About the time of their captivity in Babylon, Jeconiah had a son named Shealtiel, who had a son named Zerubbabel,
13 who had a son named Abiud, who had a son named Eliakim,
14 who had a son named Azor, who had a son named Zadok, who had a son named Achim, who had a son named Eliud,
15 who had a son named Eleazar, who had a son named Matthan, who had a son named Jacob,
16 who was the father of Joseph, the husband[7] of Mary the mother of Jesus, who is called “the Anointed One.”
17 So from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the Babylonian captivity, fourteen generation, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ, fourteen generations.[8]
18 This was how Jesus, God’s Anointed One, was born.His mother, Mary, had promised Joseph to be his wife, [9] but while she was still a virgin[10] she became pregnant through the power[11] of the Holy Spirit.[12]
19 Her fiancé,[13] Joseph, was a righteous man full of integrity and he didn’t want to disgrace her, but when he learned of her pregnancy he secretly planned to break the engagement.[14]
20 While he was still debating with himself about what to do,[15] he fell asleep and had a supernatural dream. An angel from the Lord appeared to him in clear light and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, don’t hesitate to take Mary into your home as your wife,[16] because the power of the Holy Spirit has conceived a child in her womb.
21 She will give birth to a son and you are to name him ‘Savior,’[17] for he is destined to give his life[18] to save his people from their sins.”
22 This happened so that what the Lord spoke through his prophet would come true:
23 Listen! A virgin[19] will be pregnant, she will give birth to a Son, and he will be known as “Emmanuel,” which means in Hebrew, “God became one of us.”[20]
24 When Joseph awoke from his dream, he did all that the angel of the Lord instructed him to do. He took Mary to be his wife,
25 but they refrained from having sex until she gave birth to her son, whom they named “Jesus.”