18 years


Category Jesus the Carpenter
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Yesterday -you spoke well, little one when you attempted to join them in their musing- yet it is still not the time for you to truly know as you are known.

All my biographers obviosly decided that what I had done before they wrote of me, well, was irrelevent, was un-important since they knew not what nor whom I was.

Now you tell me now…. what did you do after you graduated from TAFE (Technical and Further Education)

I had a Certificate 3 in Carpentery, then I went on to the Course be a Master Buider – we had lots of Practical experience.

Gee, Boss, your step dad was a Master carpenter, and he knew how to operate machines we never use in carpentry, as in Mechanical Lathes, how to make perfectly round balls for children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodturning#History

Bixby Pole Lathe.
Andrew Blair is a Wood Turner and witnessed one of the historical Egyption Lathes in action. We still use the same tools today

We were known as Tektons,(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekt%C5%8Dn, then and we did more than work with wood. Yes I was the Carpenter from Nazareth,.. and they knew my family,

3 thoughts on “18 years

  1. Being a woodworker I’ve always been fascinate by Joseph being a carpenter, and that he probably trained Jesus in his craft, assuming his son would follow him in his chosen trade. One of the first things I learned when taking Greek is that “carpenter” is a weak translation of τέκτων, which actually means “craftsman” and related to any skilled worker in wood, stone, or metal. Nazareth was in easy walking distance (< 4 miles) of Cana, a major city where craftsmen of any material could easily find work for the day, a skilled one might even find long term employment.

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