The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac of Jacob, and Jacob of Judah and his brothers,

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen, and from David to the Babylonian Exile, fourteen, and from the Babylonian Exile to the Christ, fourteen.

Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you God can produce descendants for Abraham right out of these stones!

And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,

'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead men but of living!"