The four women in Matthew's genealogy

The four women Matthew names — every one an outsider or a scandal.

In plain words

Matthew's list of Jesus's ancestors names four women, each an outsider or a scandal: grace crossing the bloodline, announced inside the very document meant to prove a pure line, by the writer with the most reason to clean it up.

The mechanism

THE PURITY THESIS REFUTED BY THE PURITY RECORD — grace ending seed as the border is pre-announced inside the purity document, by the author with the most reason to sanitise it

Scripture

Matthew 1:3, 5, 6

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Matthew 1:3,5,6