Nova wrote:

Fred the Red Shirt wrote:


Joseph was a carpenter. One supposes that a son would follow
in his father's profession, but is there any Biblical reference
to Jesus being a carpenter?


Mark 6:3 "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? "

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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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A co-worker took a tour arranged by his church to the Holy Land. One of
the local guides told them to look around for trees. Very few. The
guide said Jesus was more likely a mason but centuries later was
"converted" to carpentry in Europe where masons were an elite class, not
at all fitting the humble image of the Christ the Church wanted.

And "the" before Christ while redundant, is more accurate. Christ, from
the Greek Christos, is not a surname, but a title meaning "the anointed
one".