Luke 3:38 meaning and explanation

the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Luke 3:38, Berean Standard Bible

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Luke has traced Jesus' ancestry backward through David, Abraham and Noah, and the list ends where every human genealogy ends: with Adam, called the son of God. Luke is not making a claim about Jesus' divinity here; he closes the register by naming the first human as God's own creation, formed and named in Genesis.

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