Matthew 1:1

Son of David

Brooklyn Museum - The Two Blind Men at Jericho (Les deux aveugles à Jericho) - James Tissot

1 Chronicles 17:11 (KJV) And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

 

Matthew 1:1  The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

 

Matthew 9:27  And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.

 

 

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All Families of the Earth Blessed Through Abraham’s Offspring – Christ

T'oros Roslin Gospels, The Ancestors of Christ, Walters Manuscript W.539, fol. 15r

Genesis 12:3 (KJV) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

 

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