According to Luke there were between David and Jesus forty-two generations, and he gives all the names. In these genealogies--both inspired--there is a difference between David and Jesus, a difference of some fourteen or fifteen generations. Besides, the names of all the ancestors are different, with two exceptions. Matthew says that Joseph's father was Jacob. Luke says that Heli was Joseph's father. Both of these genealogies cannot be true, and the probability is that both are false. There is not in all the pulpits ingenuity enough to harmonize these ignorant and stupid contradictions. There are many curious mistakes in the words attributed to Christ. We are told in Matthew, chapter xxiii, verse 35, that Christ said: "That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." It is certain that these words were not spoken by Christ. He could not by any possibility have known that the blood of Zacharias had been shed. As a matter of fact, Zacharias was killed by the Jews, during the seige of Jerusalem by Titus, and this seige took place seventy-one years after the birth of Christ, thirty-eight years after he was dead. There is still another mistake. Zacharias was not the son of Barachias--no such Zacharias was killed. The Zacharias that was slain was the son of Baruch. But we must not expect the "inspired" to be accurate. Matthew says that at the time of the crucifixion--"the graves were opened and that many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of their graves _after_ his resurrection, and went into the holy city and appeared unto many." According to this the graves were opened at the time of the crucifixion, but the dead did not arise and come out until after the resurrection of Christ. They were polite enough to sit in their open graves and wait for Christ to rise first. To whom did these saints appear? What became of them? Did they slip back into their graves and commit suicide? Is it not wonderful that Mark, Luke and John never heard of these saints? What kind of saints were they? Certainly they were not Christian saints. So, the inspired writers do not agree in regard to Judas. Certainly the inspired writers ought to have known what happened to Judas, the betrayer. Matthew being duly "inspired" says that when Judas saw that Jesus had been condemned, he repented and took back the money to the chief priests and elders, saying that he had sinned in betraying the innocent blood. They said to him: "What is that to us? See thou to that." Then Judas threw down the pieces of silver and went and hanged himself. The chief priests then took the pieces of silver and bought the potter's field to bury strangers in, and it is called the field of blood.