My understanding is that the word that has been translated “carpenter” in our English bibles actually means “builder” and that, since most buildings in that time were of stone, he was more likely a stone mason.
Attempts to portray Jesus as anything other than an average Jew from a modest family in a nondescript town is counter to what scripture says.
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
‘Attempts to portray Jesus as anything other than an average Jew from a modest family in a nondescript town is counter to what scripture says.’
Shrug, if he was poor, a ‘Rabbi’, and such does not change the reason he came to Earth.
He was a master at making scroll top desks!
He definitely wasn't a Mason! He was Jewish!
Are you saying that Jesus was a Mason? Well, that will send throws through the anti-Masonic fraternity folks.
Funny how I went to that exact same passage, and I hadn’t even seen yours. Almost like there’s Someone guiding us down the same path. Sure it’s just a coincidence. We just read that in Good Friday service.
Isaiah is describing his appearance, not his intellect. Jesus was clearly a genius, even at age 12. Yes he carried our sin + sorrow; he was also called Rabbi by people who knew about it such as Nicodemus - this is not a ‘courtesy title’.
carpenter would be better translated as a construction worker (i.e. doing everything from brick laying to wood work and tiling).
Except in the US, where working with one’s hands is honored, that would mean working poor....there was no way for him to change his status from plebian to patrician.
as for the nonsense that he got away with stopping the fraud and kickbacks in the Temple: I suspect that this was one of the real reasons he was crucified....
Exactly, Jedidiah! He purposely did not come as the son of a wealthy earthly king or merchant.