of the Holy Spirit. This may help us to understand the divergence in the genealogies of Jesus according to Matthew and Luke after they reach the Babylonian captivity. The line of kings had ended, and there were many collateral lines which could trace ancestry back to David. The rabbi Hillel, a contemporary of Jesus, could trace his ancestry back to David through one of these lines. It seems probable that Matthew is giving us Joseph’s story and lineage, and that Luke is giving us Mary’s. Matthew certainly