This passage might seem like little more than a list of names that we can skim over or skip altogether but there is more here than we might at first recognize. Though there are many things not revealed to us about most of these individuals, there are some things that we can know, and there are things for us to learn and take away. Perhaps chief among them is this — that in Christ each one of us with our different histories and different stories has been swept up into God’s grand story of redemption and within that story, we each have a role to play.
