Since, then, David calls him 'lord,' how is he David's son?"

Among others Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem, the town of David, in Judea--because he belonged to the family and house of David--

Jesse of David the King. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother was Uriah's widow,

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

David, then, calls him 'lord,' so how is he David's son?"

Is not it said in Scripture that it is of the race of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?"