” Jesus was the ultimate outsider too. (snip) He was the son of a peasant woman, a carpenters son....”
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Jesus was NOT the son of a carpenter.
Courageous Iraqi Christian teenagers literally losing their heads today because they claim that Jesus is the Son of God.
Millions have done the same in the last 20 centuries.
Jesus was the ultimate outsider too. (snip) He was the son of a peasant woman, a carpenters son....
The people of his day/hometown certainly thought so:
(Mat. 13:55)It was this response, IIRC, that made Jesus say that a prophet is without honor in his own country.
Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?(Mk. 6:3)
Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?And they took offense at him.(Jn. 6:42)
They said,Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, I came down from heaven?
Courageous Iraqi Christian teenagers literally losing their heads today because they claim that Jesus is the Son of God.
This is true; but that Joseph was his adopted/earthly father is important because it fulfills prophecy: namely his line of succession was the line through which the kingship had to pass, but it was also under a curse that none of the line would sit on David's throne.