You see, the line of Jesus is important because King David was a space alien, and therefore Jesus and Mary Magdalene passed superior alien DNA on to the Merovingians.
I think I saw that in a Mel Brooks movie. The Twelve Apostles were a Yiddish vaudeville troupe, very popular on the Lower East Side in the 1890's, and the whole Son of God schtik was just taken too seriously. Some people will believe *anything*.
Oh.