When Jesus began his work. Luke gives the Genealogy of Jesus, and this is compared with Matthew's Genealogy in notes on Matthew 1:1-17. Luke evidently gives the family record of Mary, since Heli was her father, Joseph's father was Jacob. This was "standard practice" to state it as Luke does, and the Jews, who were very accurate about such things, did not dispute either set of "family records." He was the son, so people thought, of Joseph. Joseph was Jesus' LEGAL father, and perhaps only Mary and Joseph [at this time] knew the Miraculous Birth of Jesus. [See note on Matthew 27:56 about the difficulty of tracing names at this time.]

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