Q65: What book opens with the words, "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham"?

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Matthew 11:21-24 is arranged in a parallelism:

- A - V21 - Woe to Chorazin and Bethsaida
--- B - Tyre and Sidon would have repented
----- C - V22 - More bearable for Tyre and Sidon than you
- A - V23 - Capernaum brought down to Hades
--- B - Sodom would have remained to this day
----- C - V24 - More tolerable for Sodom than you

The Greek word anaktoteros is translated as "bearable" in v22 and "tolerable" in v24 by the ESV. Clearly Matthew intended the same word to be used in both places, as the KJV does. Varying the translation might be better prose in English, but obscures the intended poetic wordplay.

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
John 15:23

You can't reject the Son of God without rejecting God. Unfortunately, Christian theologians have so twisted the message of #yeshua that he is almost unrecognizable as the Son of God. Yeshua is a "stone of offense" to people in rebellion, but Christianity has put an antinomian stumbling stone in the path so that many people never even have a chance to see the real Son of God.

And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God."
Luke 1:35

Some children are of promise (Isaac, Joseph, et al), but only one child of promise can be called Son of God from conception. He is, was, and ever will be the Son of/within God. He was the Son before his body was conceived and he was the fulfillment of God's promises before the words were ever spoken.

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And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”
Luke 1:34

Although Mary's question sounds like doubt, just as Zechariah doubted when he heard that he would have a son. The difference is that Mary asked "How will this happen?" while Zechariah asked "How can I know that you're telling me the truth?"