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

Eliud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

Jacob the father of Joseph, and Joseph (to whom the virgin Mary was betrothed) the father of Jesus, who is called 'Christ.'

Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven,

I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living."

As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and to his reign there will be no end."

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nachor,

There you will wail and gnash your teeth, to see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the prophets inside the Realm of God and yourselves put outside.

And that the dead are raised has been indicated by Moses in the passage on the Bush, when he calls the Lord 'God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'

and in so doing he arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar; it lay near the territory which Jacob had given to his son Joseph,

and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon,

Are you a greater man than Jacob, our ancestor? He gave us this well, and he drank from it, with his sons and his cattle."

The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified Jesus his servant, whom you delivered up and repudiated before Pilate. Pilate had decided to release him,

God also gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, whom he circumcised on the eighth day, Isaac was the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

But, hearing there was food in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors on their first visit to that country;

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his kinsfolk, amounting to seventy-five souls;

and Jacob went south to Egypt. When he and our ancestors died,

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

He found favour with God and asked permission to devise a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

As it is written, Jacob I loved but Esau I hated.

This done, all Israel will be saved ??as it is written, The deliverer will come from Sion, he will banish all godlessness from Jacob:

It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;

It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in connexion with the future.

It was by faith that, when Jacob was dying, he blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bending in prayer over the head of his staff.