Do you think Jesus ever got many carpenter requests after he started preaching? Like did anyone ever go up to him and be like; "My Lord! My Lord!" And the disciples are all: "The Master won't do anymore miracles today." But obviously Jesus is like; "Yes, my child?" And they just ask what his basic rate is to fix their door.
No one talks enough about the fact that Jesus had a day job.
He repaired the relationship between humanity and god, he also repaired the table in his friend Mary's house cuz it wobbled too much.
“Jesus!”
“How can I help you my child?”
“So the Chair I got from you and your dad is great, but I tripped over it and it broke, I was hoping you could fix it?”
“Go home and be at peace, your chair is fixed.”
“Lord, did you really just use a miracle to fix his chair?”
“Luke my son, it was still under warranty.”
“honey that guy who made our table got crucified”
While this is super interesting and ive reblogged it before because the concept is funny, theologians/historians question whether Jesus was actually a carpenter. You see the Kione Greek word used in that instance later came to mean specifically "carpenter" however at the original time of documentation, it had a slightly higher connotation, merely meaning "day-laboror". A carpenter would have been in the absolute barest of poverty, and would never have been able to leave His mother at home to go preaching across the country side. Even if He left her with His cousins/family, His family would have been extremely poor as well, and they wouldn't have been able to financially support her.
Its theorized that Jesus actually worked in - essentially - construction. Laying bricks and building buildings. This would have made Him very muscular and healthy, and would have provided enough income for Him to realistically leave His trade to become a Rabbi.
This also means he would understand the complexities of building the Temple and why it took so long. So add that to the shock value of Him saying He will rebuild it in 3 days.
TL;DR Jesus probably didn't work with wood, but did skilled labor building cities and was probably ripped because of it.
Jesus was swole as fuck
