Genealogies are probably the portions of Scripture most skipped by readers; after all what is the point of reading through a list of names? Yet it was a not a superfluous list in Matthew's gospel. What is the significance of the genealogy? Why are Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba featured in it? What can ancestry tell us about Jesus and God's purpose for the world? Ps. Japheth Lim mines the genealogy in Matthew 1:1-17 and unpacks the significance and relevance of Jesus' ancestry for us today.