Mother Mary and King David?

[Montie_Claunch]

I know that Jesus is supposed to be from the line of David, why doesn’t the bible give us Marys decent from David? I wouldn’t think that Josephs liniage would matter scince Joseph isn’t Jesus’ Father (Well Father-in-law but, not Father). Could anyone help me with this? Thanks and God bless.

 

[AnthonyM2]

I believe it was because, as far as the world in which Jesus lived at that time was concerned, Joseph was considered His father (although actually His Foster-Father) and the paternal lineage was all that was important, again in those days. Although Mary was most likely also descended from David.

 

[kleary]

I belive is because once a man and woman are married they become one flesh. Once Mary married Joseph her children would be from the lineage of King David since Joseph was her husband.

Ken

 

[Mommyof02green]

This article might help: THE GENEALOGIES OF CHRIST {click here}

 

[Mommyof02green]

This might help too:

Q: Matthew 1:1–17 shows how St. Joseph is a descendent of King David. But since Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ biological father, how did Jesus fulfill the prophecy that Jesus would be a descendent of David?

A: Joseph’s genealogy is listed because, by Joseph’s marriage to Mary and his acceptance of Jesus as his own child (Matt. 1:18–25), Joseph became Jesus’ legal father, making Joseph’s ancestors Jesus’ ancestors. There is an Old Testament precedent for this in the story of Jacob’s adoption of Joseph’s sons Manasseh and Ephraim (Gen. 48:3–6). Jacob claims these sons of Joseph as his own and states that they are sons equal in standing to Reuben and Simeon, his first- and second-born sons.

Christian scholars have long speculated that because the prophesied relationship between David and Jesus appeared to be much closer than a legal relationship (cf. Rom. 1:3, which says Jesus “was descended from David according to the flesh”), the Virgin Mary might also have been of the house of David. If Mary was a descendant of King David, Jesus would have been the Son of David both by his legal relationship to Joseph and by the Davidic blood relationship he received through his Mother. By the laws of the time, though, the legal relationship would have sufficed to count Jesus as the Son of David. Source: {click here}

 

[RCCDefender]

Mary was from the line of David. As an only daughter she would have been married to someone of the same lineage or tribe or what have you.

 

[Mommyof02green]

Mary was from the line of David. As an only daughter she would have been married to someone of the same lineage or tribe or what have you.

Genealogy of Christ {newadvent.org}:

Tradition tells us that Mary too was a descendant of David. According to Numbers 36:6-12, an only daughter had to marry within her own family so as to secure the right of inheritance. After St. Justin (Adv. Tryph. 100) and St. Ignatius (Letter to the Ephesians 18), the Fathers generally agree in maintaining Mary’s Davidic descent, whether they knew this from an oral tradition or inferred it from Scripture, e.g. Romans 1:3; II Timothy 2:8. St. John Damascene (De fid. Orth., IV, 14) states that Mary’s great-grandfather, Panther, was a brother of Mathat; her grandfather, Barpanther, was Heli’s cousin; and her father, Joachim, was a cousin of Joseph, Heli’s levirate son. Here Mathat has been substituted for Melchi, since the text used by St. John Damascene, Julius Africanus, St. Irenaeus, St. Ambrose, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus omitted the two generations separating Heli from Melchi. At any rate, tradition presents the Blessed Virgin as descending from David through Nathan. {click here for source}