and as Joseph belonged to the house and family of David he went up from Galilee to Judaea, from the town of Nazaret to David's town called Bethlehem,

and Jessai the father of king David. David was the father of Solomon by Uriah's wife,

Thus all the generations from Abraham to David number fourteen, from David to the Babylonian captivity fourteen, and from the Babylonian captivity to Christ fourteen.

Does not scripture say it is from the offspring of David, from David's village of Bethlehem, that the Christ is to come?"