A strange thread runs through the most prominent women associated with Jesus: they are all women of, shall we say, ill repute. Most of their notorious reputations spring from sexual scandals. What does this say about Christ? An awful lot. If your habit is to skip over the genealogies in the first chapter of Matthews Gospel, you may have missed a treasure buried in this list of forty fathers who comprise Jesuss ancestry (if we count Joseph), stretching as far back as Abraham.