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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Jacob (Man living at the time of the Patriarchs)
In the New Testament the name mostly means the patriarch, set beside Abraham and Isaac, and Luke's angel promises Mary that Jesus will reign "over the house of Jacob forever". Matthew's genealogy also has a Jacob as the father of Joseph.
In the New Testament the name mostly means the patriarch, set beside Abraham and Isaac, and Luke's angel promises Mary that Jesus will reign "over the house of Jacob forever". Matthew's genealogy also has a Jacob as the father of Joseph.
Luke's angel tells Mary that Jesus will reign ‘over the house of Jacob forever’ (1:33), the same Jacob paired with Abraham and Isaac as founding-father shorthand later (13:28, 20:37). Josephus's version of the Genesis 28 vision at Bethel has God open with almost a pep talk, don't be dejected at your present circumstances, before the land-and-descendants promise Genesis itself records.
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- Matthew 1:2
- Matthew 8:11
- Luke 13:28
- John 4:5
- John 4:12
- Acts 3:13
- Acts 7:8
- Acts 7:12
- Acts 7:14
- Acts 7:15
- Romans 9:13
- Romans 11:26
- Hebrews 11:9
- Hebrews 11:20
- Hebrews 11:21
