From Adam to Christ
The line through the patriarchs and kings, the two Gospel genealogies after David, and the prophets of each era. Click a person to open the next generation; click again to close it. Where a person has a film (marked ▶) or a passage, the card you clicked leads to it.
How are they connected? Pick any two →Click a name to open the family below it. A under a card means there is a family to open.
After David the two lists are not the same list. Matthew follows the royal line through Solomon and counts three groups of fourteen (Matthew 1:17), passing over Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah and Jehoiakim; Luke follows Nathan, another son of David, and says Joseph was “the son, as was supposed,” of Heli (Luke 3:23). Both are shown, and both arrive at Jesus. Prophets are not fathers in the line, so they hang beside the king or ancestor of their day. Names follow Genesis 5 and 11, Ruth 4:18–22, Matthew 1:1–17 and Luke 3:23–38; Luke’s Cainan, between Arphaxad and Shelah, is in his list and not in the Hebrew of Genesis 11.