But Joe was not his Dad.....Jesus was in the bloodline of David.....the prodigal son....your explanation is plausible but there is no evidence thereof, Not a word anywhere of
Jesus with a hammer and nail in his hand----
somehow in sunday school coloring books he is
a shepherd. In fact that is no comment at all as
to how he supported himself. Moses was a shepherd------Muhummad was a thief and gigolo---but Jesus just managed to LIVE with nothing. It is not even clear where he lived. There are implications in the NT what he tried to live under-cover--------JUDAS has to reveal his location.
Jesus is a mystery
The literal translation might have been Craftsman...
Was Jesus a carpenter
Jesus story at the start is too much like Moses. A King was told of a child that would usurp the King, and order the murder of children before a certain age.
As for Constantine and him twisting the religion of his Peasant population we must understand the fact that the Roman Pagan Gods were falling out of popularity amongst the lower class, and Constantine was no fool, and understood the power of religion and controlling the ignorant society with it, so he had the Roman Bible made.
The Christian Religion is based on too much of mythology created by Constantine and later those like King James. Also the Christian Religion leave out many texts from other writers that could have explained so much more who Jesus was. They ignored those texts because it made Jesus human and not the God like being that would rule even a Emperor.
So in my opinion the story of Jesus is more myth than reality. The real Jesus was most likely a Craftsman that was married and might have been a Rabbi ( I believe he was ) and rebelled against the Jewish leadership of the day because he saw the injustice and how that leadership were puppets of the Roman Empire, but as being a Messiah and God like being that story is too much of a myth that would be taught to the ignorant population of the day, but should be consider just a story that it is.
Just my opinion again...
there seems to be no question that Jesus rebelled against the Roman shills ----the officials put in place by rome----especially the high priests of the temple. I do not recall if he had an opinion of Herod----the edomite king -----no evidence but Herod did get rid of John the Baptist who may have been a friend to Jesus
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What I was taught Jesus was related to John the Baptist and many thought John was the messiah in his day. How true those myths are and if they were related is not really known except what the king James translation suggested...
John the Baptist
All I know for sure on the Jesus subject is he could never be a Messiah seeing he never delivered the Jewish Population of that day from bondage.
Jesus was in the line of David----who is of the line of JUDAH -----thru his father------Joseph.