One standard is Matthew 1 and Luke 3:23 and when you get through- tell me who the Father of Jesus IS!!? Good luck.
[23] Who was of Heli: St. Joseph, who by nature was the son of Jacob, (St. Matt. 1. 16,) in the account of the law, was son of Heli. For Heli and Jacob were brothers, by the same mother; and Heli, who was the elder, dying without issue, Jacob, as the law directed, married his widow: in consequence of such marriage, his son Joseph was reputed in the law the son of Heli.
That doesn’t answer the question.
That’s just deflection.
What is the standard by which you measure and judge Scripture?
What is the source of the truth you have that is outside Scripture that stands in judgment of it.
Heli is the father of Mary. That genealogy in Luke 3 is hers. If they had a word combo back then like we do in English it would probably have read, “son-in-law”.
They could have easily wrote that it was Mary’s side of the bloodline, but back then they weren’t too keen on listing the women-folks family tree straight up.
But also too, I don’t think “son” is even in the original manuscript either on Luke 3:23 because that word “son” is tilted/slanted as if it was entered later to make it flow more evenly to the reader.
I would have to go back and look at the Greek Septuagint and do some translating word for word to figure out if the word “son” is in there or not.
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