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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Mattathias (Man living at the time of Exile and Return)
Luke's genealogy has two of them in consecutive generations, and neither is mentioned anywhere else.
First, in plain English
Luke's genealogy has two of them in consecutive generations, and neither is mentioned anywhere else.
Who this is
Two men named Mattathias appear consecutively in Luke's genealogy of Jesus: the son of Amos and the son of Semein, both several generations before Joseph (Luke 3:25-26). Neither is otherwise known; the name, meaning “gift of the Lord,” was common enough to later be borne by the priest who launched the Maccabean revolt roughly a century and a half before Jesus, though that Mattathias is a different, unrelated figure.
study-bible (ACAI + Tyndale)
The word
G3161
Where it appears
- Luke 3:26
