Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob
the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah became the father of Perez and
Zerah, whose mother was Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron, Hezron the
father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of
Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother
was Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth. Obed became
the father of Jesse, Jesse the father of David the king.
David became the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of
Uriah. Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah,
Abijah the father of Asaph. Asaph became the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat
the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah. Uzziah became the father of
Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah became
the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amos, Amos the father of Josiah.
Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the
Babylonian exile.
After the Babylonian exile, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel the father of Abiud. Abiud
became the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor, Azor the father of
Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the
father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of
Jacob, Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus
who is called the Christ.
Thus the total number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen
generations; from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen generations; from the
Babylonian exile to the Christ, fourteen generations.
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Reflection:
Do you know your family tree?
With the modernity of technology today wherein we are always busy with
facebook and our many gadgets. Do we still have time to know our family tree or
are we still willing to know our family tree? Say for example the names of our
ancestors, do we still have time to know them?
Or we don’t have time to know them for the simple reason that they belong
to the past already. And we are now here in this high-technology driven times
where there is less people to people interaction. We now interact more with our
internet friendly cell phones, ipads, laptops etc.
Nevertheless, we still need to know who our relatives are for the simple
reason that we are humans. We are not high tech cell phones or other gadgets.
And as such we need to know who our relatives are, so that we could also touch
base and help them if they are in need of help.
We have in our gospel the ancestry of Jesus, it traces the family history
of Jesus. From Abraham, King David up to Saint Joseph the designated father of
Jesus. This ancestry shows the humanity of Jesus.
Even if He is God the Son Jesus is also human like all of us and being
human this means that He is one with us. We can even adopt Him as our relative
so that we could feel more closer to Him. For example we can treat Jesus as our
brother or even our father that we could communicate with anytime.
God could have chosen Jesus to directly originate from heaven like a
shooting star coming into earth. But God allowed Jesus to come from an ancestry
of numerous people so that we can always be at home with Him. And so that we
could treat Him as our close friend, our brother or even our father.
How’s your relationship with Jesus? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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