Luke 3:37 meaning and explanation

the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,

Luke 3:37, Berean Standard Bible

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Luke has just traced Jesus' baptism and the heavenly voice declaring Him God's beloved Son, and now he sets that Son within a family line reaching back through Israel's ancestors to Adam. This verse sits in the stretch of the genealogy that runs from Noah back toward the beginning, naming the generations Scripture records before the flood.

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