Heli (Bible)
Heli is a Biblical individual mentioned in the Gospel of Luke as the grandfather of Jesus.
In Luke's account of the genealogy of Jesus, Heli is listed as the father of Saint Joseph and the son of Matthat.
- Luke 3:23 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, of Heli, of Matthat, of Levi (...)
While the Gospel of Matthew, the only other canonical gospel to include a genealogy, also has a similarly named "Matthan" as Joseph's grandfather, the two gospels disagree on the name of Joseph's father (in Matthew, Joseph's father is identified as "Jacob"). This, and numerous other genealogical discrepancies in Matthan/Matthat's ancestors, has led to numerous attempts to reconcile the two genealogies, to varying degrees of plausibility.
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