about thirty yeeres of age] At which age the Priests were to enter into their function. Numbers 4:3. 35, &c. being (as was supposed) the sonne of Joseph] For Christ as man had no Father, as God, no Mother: as it is said of Melchisedec his type, Hebrews 7:3. sonne of Hel] Luke ascendeth from the last father to the first, and Matthew contrariwise descendeth, extending his rehearsall no further then to Abraham, to assure the Jewes of the promise fulfilled to them: Luke rehearseth to Adam, to assure the Gentiles also of their interest in Christ. Note also, that the Jewes reckoned these Genealogies, not onely by the naturall, but also by the legall descents, and that whereas divers men had two names, one of the Evangelists reciting one, and the other another, they yet agree in the same person.