Luke 3:23–38 (Title) This view is not accepted by all scholars, though it is found as early as Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. i, 7). See note 5 at end of Harmony. (Mt. 1:16) The Sinaitic Syriac, against all the early Greek manuscripts, reads in Matt. 1:16: “But Joseph, to whom the Virgin Mary was betrothed, begat Jesus.” This ancient Ebionitic text is followed by Von Soden in his Griechisches Neues Testament and by Moffatt in his New Translation of the New Testament, but it is difficult to believe it genuine,