‘The angel went to her and said "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you". Mary was also a descendant of David, but she was descended from David’s son Nathan, while her husband Joseph was a descendant of David’s son Solomon (the genealogy of Joseph is found in Matthew 1:1-16). Luke records here that Joseph was a descendant of David, yet when he records the family tree of Jesus in Luke 3:23-38 he gives the ancestors, not of Joseph, but of Mary. "In the sixth month God sent the angel Gabriel to Galilee to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David" (Luke 1:26-27) The first mention of Mary in the Gospels concerns the appearance of an angel: But what was Mary like? What part did she play in the Gospel story? Even people who have never read the Bible have heard about the mother of Jesus Christ. ![]() Mary is one of the most famous characters in the Bible.
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