12 Gr. first in regard of me.

13 Many very ancient authorities read God only begotten.

a The Fourth Gospel makes no further use of the term Logos (Word) for Christ. No other Gospel employs the term, but in 1 John 1:1 we find "the Word of life" in this sense and in Rev. 19:14 we have: "and his name is called the Word of God." The Greek word has a double sense (reason and speech) and John seems to have both ideas in mind (1:18). Christ is the Idea of God and the Expression of God. The Stoics followed Plato in the philosophical use of Logos. Philo took it up and made it familiar to Jewish readers who were already used to the Hebrew Mêmra (Word) in a personal sense. But John carried the term further than any of his predecessors and placed it on a par with Messiah, Son of God, Son of Man, and other phrases that portray aspects of the Person of Christ. John writes his Gospel to prove the deity of Jesus ([John 20:31]) against Gnostics (Cerinthian) who denied it, as he wrote his First Epistle (1 John 1:1-4) to prove the humanity of Jesus against Docetic Gnostics who disclaimed it. See [note 3] at end of Harmony.

PART III
THE TWO GENEALOGIES IN MATTHEW AND LUKE

§ 3. APPARENTLY JOSEPH'S GENEALOGY IN MATTHEW AND MARY'S IN LUKEa

Matt. 1:1-17. (Cf. 1 Chron. 1:34;
2:1-25; 3:1-19.)		Luke 3:23-38. (Cf. 1 Chron. 1:1-4,
24-28; 2:1-15; 3:17; Ruth 4:18-22.)
1 1The book of the 2generation
of Jesus Christ, the son of David,
the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac
begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judah
and his brethren; 3 and Judah begat
Perez and Zerah of Tamar; and
Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron
begat 3Ram; 4 and 3Ram begat
Amminadab; and Amminadab
begat Nahshon; and Nahshon
begat Salmon; 5 and Salmon begat
Boaz of Rahab; and Boaz begat
Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat
Jesse; 6 and Jesse begat David the
king.
And David begat Solomon of
her that had been the wife of Uriah;
7 and Solomon begat Rehoboam;
and Rehoboam begat Abijah;
and Abijah begat 4Asa; 8 and 4Asa
begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehosh-
aphat begat Joram; and Joram
begat Uzziah; 9 and Uzziah begat
Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz;
and Ahaz begat Hezekiah; 10 and
Hezekiah begat Manasseh; and
Manasseh begat 5Amon; and
5Amon begat Josiah; 11 and Josiah
begat Jechoniah and his brethren,
at the time of the 6carrying away
to Bablyon.
12 And after the 6carrying away
to Babylon, Jechoniah begat
7Shealtiel; and 7Shealtiel begat
Zerubbabel; 13 and Zerubbabel
begat Abiud; and Abiud begat
Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
14 and Azor begat Sadoc; and
Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim
begat Eliud; 15 and Eliud begat
Eleazar; and Eleazar begat
Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
16 and Jacob begat Joseph the
husband of Mary, of whom was
bornb Jesus, who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from
Abraham unto David are fourteen
generations; and from David unto
the 6carrying away to Babylon
fourteen generations; and from the
6carrying away to Babylon unto the
Christ fourteen generations.c 		Being the son (as was supposed)
of Joseph, the son of Heli, 24 the
son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
the son of Melchi, the son
of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
25 the son of Mattathias, the
son of Amos, the son of Nahum,
the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
26 the son of Maath, the son of
Mattathias, the son of Semein,
the son of Josech, the son of
Joda, 27 the son of Joanan, the son
of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel,
the son of 7Shealtiel, the son of
Neri, 28 the son of Melchi, the son
of Addi, the son of Cosam, the
son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
29 the son of Jesus, the son of
Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of
Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son
of Symeon, the son of Judas, the
son of Joseph, the son of Jonam,
the son of Eliakim, 31 the son of
Melea, the son of Menna, the son
of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the
son of David, 32 the son of Jesse,
the son of Obed, the son of Boaz,
the son of 8Salmon, the son of
Nahshon, 33 the son of Amminadab,
9the son of 10Arni, the son of
Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of
Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son
of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the
son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu,
the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,
the son of Shelah, 36 the son of
Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the
son of Shem, the son of Noah,
the son of Lamech, 37 the son of
Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of
Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, 38 the
son of Enos, the son of Seth, the
son of Adam, the son of God.

1 Or, The genealogy of Jesus Christ.

2 Or, birth: as in [ver. 18].