The Mitochondria

Click here to read Matthew Chapter 2 with me! Now some people from some place in the east, wherever that is, apparently thought that this Jesus kid being born was a big deal! I mean, they must be doing something right if they are called wise men. So much so that they went to the mighty King Herod to ask him about this "newborn king of the Jews"! So the wise men saw the star as it rose. Now, I can't imagine a bunch of smart guys sitting at the stars all night. They need to be studying and getting their sleep! Will I be wise if I Sit and look up looking for stars all night? No! I have to work hard doing my homework to get smart and stuff! The king was very troubled by this! I could imagine, since he was already the king. So the king called together all of the leading priests and religious law teachers to try to get some answers! They knew that Jesus was supposed to be born in Bethlehem in Judea (because he was), so the king sent the wise men on their way to find ...

So today I decided to look into the book of Matthew. I started from the beginning and found that list leading down from Abraham through King David all the way down through Jesus. Why is this gobbledygook important? Well, people were expecting the messiah to come from David's family line, and they got just that. In fact, we have this list as evidence! It may seem like unnecessary paperwork now, but back then, that was a big deal! "Mary? That's a good idea!" "WHAT? No! Not a good idea! Bad!" The writer segwayed it nicely into how the shebang went down. So Joseph saw this pretty 'lil lady named Mary, and Joseph thought "Mary? That's a good idea!" So they were going to have a wedding and everything would be hunky-dory! But uh-oh, mary was pregnant that wasn't good for Joseph's image to get married to a girl if she was already pregnant! (Imagine how awkward that would be! People be asking "y'all already going at it?...