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I am grateful to Gavin of the blog Otagosh for pointing out the genealogical gem that BBC News recently shared. Jesus almost certainly was descended from David \u2013 because it is likely that\u00a0everyone among the Jews in his time was descended from David. Read the article for the genealogical logic behind this statement. Of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,32,34,39],"tags":[1055,2471,2623,2624,3830,4652,8083,13411],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-gospel-of-luke","category-gospel-of-matthew","category-historical-jesus","tag-bbc","tag-david","tag-descendant","tag-descended","tag-genealogy","tag-historical-jesus","tag-news","tag-virginal-conception"],"yoast_head":"\n
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