
Zechariah 12:12 make a reference to the "House Of Nathan", which based on the closeness to a reference to the "House of David" indicates this may be the same Nathan who was David's son. So Matthew Chapter 1 states the lineage of Joseph, and Luke States the Lineage of Mary. But Jesus is the genuine child of Mary, and the Jewish Talmud refers to Mary as the Daughter of Heli. If Jesus was adopted then Prophecy of coming Messiah would have been invalid in case of Jesus, as he is not of the line of David. There are three main incidents in his career as depicted in the Old Testament. If Jesus was Joseph's son then Jesus would have been disqualified to hold the position of King. na'-than (nathan, 'gift' Nathan): A court prophet in David's reign and a supporter of Solomon at his accession. But Jeremiah 22:24-30 God pronounces a curse on Jeconiah (lineage of David) and his descendants, declaring them ineligible to sit upon the throne of David. The literary prophets also have been viewed. The first chapter of Mathew states that Jesus is in the lineage of Joseph. Nathan, and Elijah (11th9th century bce) have been viewed as representing a transitional stage from the so-called vulgar prophetism to the literary prophetism, which some scholars believed represented a more ethical and therefore a higher form of prophecy. In Jewish tradition, when a person gets married to somebody, it is said house of bride will also be known in the son's name also.


A lineage recorded according to Matthew does not include Nathan, because it describes the paternal lineage through Joseph, and correspondingly Solomon, the youngest son of Bathsheba. In the Old Testament history books (Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah), prophets such as Deborah, Samuel, Nathan, Elijah, Elisha, Huldah, and others came forward to speak God’s word to a rebellious people.

In the New Testament, the genealogy of Jesus according to Gospel of Luke includes Nathan because it describes the maternal lineage through Mary. He was David's third son born in Jerusalem. Nathan was the son of King David and Bathsheba, the older brother of Solomon.
