What is very sad here is that ppl argue over the Bible translated in a language (Greek then English) which has completely corrupted the actual meaning and significance of the phrases and parables used to express the truth of Christ. The story of Jesus Christ is based in factual truth but it is also a parable meant to illustrate the identity of God the Father(as Joseph), God the Mother (The Holy Spirit) and mankind (Jesus Christ) and our roe and function in creation. The WHOLE purpose that you all have missed is the teaching, not genealogy! This story describes the nature of the God we serve. If any of you studied the Kabalah and the Torah and was filed with the Holy Spirit it would be blatantly apparent. THe sad thing is most Christians read the Bible in cmplete ignorance and only see it for a story. Mary was a Levite and a Nazarene. Nazarene's can marry within any tribe. She was a descendant of Moses, because ony the clan of Moses could hold the most sacred things of the ark of the covenant and Mary held HIM in her BODY! Also she went to visit Elizabeth, her cousin (granddaughter of Aaron) and mother of John the Baptist. John was Jesus's Aaron(prophet as Elohim spoke and told Moses) and Mary gave birth to Jesus (who Elohim said would be like Moses, God t the people)....Joseph was a descendant of David (and by the way Hagar as was a covenant with her, NOT Sarah) and just as God the Father most high became Father to M'icha'el(Yeshuah Christ's REAL name in Heaven) who was created alone by our DIVINE MOTHER AND WOMB OF THE COSMOS THE BREATH OF LIFE THE HOY SPIRIT, Joseph too became the Father of Jesus Yeshuah ha Messiach. This story not only tells of Jesus's divine birth but who our divine parents are and how they created us! The whole book of the Bible is teaching us about them from the beginning to the end. Jesus came to give us back to our Divine Mother the Holy Spirit so we can again be one with HER for she is the Ruler of EARTH as the FEMININE force OF GOD and once HER'S again spiritually RE-BIRTHED, then our soul can become one with the Father, as He is the RULER OF THE HEAVENS. Lack of this understanding is why people end up seperated from God the father when they die and have t come back t earth in many lives to get this truth. You people are sadly lost and it is religion to blame; for it is Spirit and Truth which will be our teacher in the coming awareness.