¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.

¹⁴ And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

²⁰ Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem;

¹¹ And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.

¹² And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel;

² Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples

⁴¹ Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).