Jacob
Jacob was the son of Matthan and the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, named as the last private individual in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus Christ before Joseph himself. He shares his name with the patriarch Jacob (Israel), many centuries earlier, but is a distinct and otherwise unrecorded person.
Biography
- Father
- Matthan
- Era
- Exile / Second Temple
Family
Did You Know?
Luke's genealogy of Jesus (Luke 3:23) names Joseph's father as 'Heli' rather than Jacob, one of several differences between Matthew's and Luke's genealogies that have been explained by proposals such as Luke tracing Mary's line, or a levirate-marriage relationship between the two men.
This Jacob shares his name with the patriarch Jacob (renamed Israel), Joseph's ancestor roughly forty generations earlier, but the two are entirely distinct individuals separated by well over a thousand years.
Key Chapters
Key Passages
From the Exile to Joseph
Matthew 1:15-16
This Jacob is the final link in the long chain of names Matthew traces from the Babylonian exile to the birth of Christ - his only recorded act is fathering Joseph.
15nd Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;