Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2080 The death of the child born to David and Bathsheba is one of the most emotionally difficult passages in the Old Testament. It comes in the wake of one of Scripture’s most devastating accounts of moral collapse: adultery, deception, and the calculated murder of an innocent man. And in the middle of the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03087 The book of Ruth is four chapters long and tells a story set during the period of the judges. It could be read simply as a moving account of loyalty, loss, and redemption within an Israelite family. But the genealogy at its close, tracing a line from Perez through Boaz to David (Ruth…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3056 Genealogies can seem like the driest parts of the Bible. Lists of names, one after another, with difficult pronunciations and unfamiliar figures. Many readers skip straight past them. But the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke are far more significant than they first appear. They are not mere record-keeping. They are theological…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3055 When you read Matthew’s Gospel and Luke’s Gospel, you encounter something puzzling. Both give genealogies of Jesus, but they are different. Matthew traces the line from Abraham through David to Joseph. Luke traces the line from Jesus back through David to Adam. But the differences go beyond direction. Even within the section from…