Jacob
Family: Israelite · Role: ancestor · First appears: Matthew 1
As an Israelite ancestor, Jacob appears in Matthew 1 through his family line: Isaac and Matthan are named as his parents, while Joseph the husband of Mary is named as his son. In Matthew 22, Jesus invokes him when declaring God to be the God of the living: “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?” Luke 3 also places Jacob in the genealogy through his son.
At Sychar in John 4, Jacob is connected with Joseph the patriarch through the parcel of ground he gave him. In Acts 7, at the second time Joseph the patriarch was recognized by his brothers, he summoned Jacob and all their kindred to Egypt. Romans 9 recalls Jacob’s mother Rebecca, his brother Esau, and God’s declaration, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Hebrews 11 records that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, and places Jacob with Abraham and Isaac as heirs of the same promise.
Relationship record
Life events
- Jesus affirms resurrection by declaring God is God of the living, not the dead.(Matthew 22)
- Jesus declares God to be God of the living, not the dead.(Mark 12)
- Jesus declares that God is God of the living, because all live unto him.(Luke 20)
- Jacob gave Joseph a parcel of ground near Sychar.(John 4 · 📍 Sychar)
- With: Joseph the patriarch
- “which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.”
- Joseph was recognized by his brothers and summoned Jacob and their kindred to Egypt.(Acts 7 · 📍 Egypt)
- With: Joseph the patriarch
- “And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.”
- God establishes that the elder will serve the younger and declares love for Jacob over Esau.(Romans 9)
Matthew 1
- parent: Isaac “Isaac begat Jacob;”
- parent: Matthan “and Matthan begat Jacob;”
- child: Joseph the husband of Mary “And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,”
Matthew 22
- with God (God is identified as the God of Jacob.) “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”
Luke 3
- child: Juda (son of Jacob) “which was the son of Juda, Which was the son of Jacob”
John 4
- child: Joseph the patriarch (Jacob is identified as Joseph's father.) “Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.”
Acts 7
- with Joseph the patriarch (Joseph called Jacob to join him in Egypt.) “Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.”
Romans 9
- parent: Rebecca (Rebecca conceived the children identified as Jacob and Esau.) “And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
- parent: Isaac (Isaac is identified as the father of Rebecca's children Jacob and Esau.) “And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
- siblings with Esau (Jacob and Esau are the two children conceived by Rebecca and Isaac.) “And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
Hebrews 11
- blesser: Isaac “By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.”
- with Abraham (Jacob was a co-heir with Abraham of the promise.) “dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise”
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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.