The Carpenter’s Son
24 Nov 2018
“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?” (Mt. 13:55). How many times have we heard this phrase from the Gospel? And we might have been tempted to hear it merely as a mundane description used by Jesus’s enemies. The word in Greek, tekton, however, can be translated anywhere from “builder,” “workman,” and more exactly “carpenter” or “craftsman … More The Carpenter’s Son