This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah.… Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar … Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth … David … the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife … Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.… Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.