Who was the father of Mary?

If you’ve ever taken the time to count them, you’ll notice that there seems to be a generation missing in Matthew’s account of the genealogy of Jesus in most Bibles; for we read at Matthew 1:17: ‘So there were fourteen generations from AbraHam to David, fourteen generations from David until the deportation to Babylon, and fourteen generations from the deportation to Babylon to the Anointed One.’ Yet, the list in Matthew that shows Jesus’ earthly ancestors after the deportation to Babylon seems to show only thirteen names. What accounts for this? Well, if you examine the available Aramaic text (which we have reason to believe is more accurate than the current Greek text of Matthew), you can see that ‘JoSeph the son of Jacob’ wasn’t Mary’s husband, but her father… which makes fourteen generations. Yes, she did marry a man who was also named JoSeph, but apparently, he isn’t the one mentioned in the text at Matthew 1:16. Notice that Mary’s husband JoSeph was not the son of Jacob, but of Heli (see Luke 3:23). Then, why does the genealogy of Luke’s account differ? Because it looks like he lists the family line of JoSeph, Mary’s husband, while Matthew is discussing the genealogy of Mary. Yes, we realize that this the opposite to what most religions teach, but they clearly haven’t done the research.