[Mercat]

Seems to me that if the DNA matches the house of Levi ... Jesus was not born to that house.

[NYer]

Seems to me that if the DNA matches the house of Levi ... Jesus was not born to that house.

Was that in the above post? I didn't see it.

[Surtur]

Or it could just be that the current decendants of the house of Levi intermarried with the house of David to the point that both now share many DNA markers.

[adam_az]

"Seems to me that if the DNA matches the house of Levi ... Jesus was not born to that house."

Even more confusingly, there's more than one Levite line. A small number of Ashkenazic male Levites (myself included) are a direct descendent of Khazarian converts about a millenia ago. Google for R1a haplotype