Content in Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, Conway vol. 4, pages 154-155.
The book of Matthew gives (1.16) a genealogy by name from David up, through Joseph, the husband of Mary, to Christ, and makes there to be twenty-eight generations. The book of Luke gives also a genealogy by name from Christ, through Joseph the husband of Mary, down to David, and makes there to be forty-three generations; besides which, there is only the two names of David and Joseph that are alike in the two lists.
Now, if these men, Matthew and Luke, set out with a falsehood between them (as these two accounts show they 
do) in the very commencement of their history of Jesus 
Christ, and of who, and of what he was, what authority (as 
I have before asked) is there left for believing the strange 
things they tell us afterwards? If they cannot be believed in their account of his natural genealogy, how are we to believe them when they tell us he was the son of God, begotten by a ghost; and that an angel announced this in secret to his mother? If they lied in one genealogy, why are we to believe them in the other? If his natural genealogy be manufactured, which it certainly is, why are we not to suppose that his celestial genealogy is manufactured also, and that the whole is fabular?

The Three Bibles and the genealogy of Christ

The three are identical in the manner of notation, and thus exactly in the same way divergent in genealogy.

Matthew

Luke

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