{"id":36,"date":"2010-06-14T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T08:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-11-27T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:14:38","slug":"jesus-wasnt-really-a-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/jesus-wasnt-really-a-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Wasn\u2019t Really A Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jesus<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> Jesus wasn’t really a carpenter, at least not as we understand the profession.\u00a0 Now obviously, eventually Jesus’s chosen profession was of a “Rabbi” or teacher; so in that sense he wasn’t a carpenter regardless of translation.\u00a0 However, in his early years, it is supposed from Mark 6:2-3 that he was, like his step-father, a “carpenter” as commonly translated.<\/p>\n

However, the chosen translation from the Greek word “tecton” to mean “carpenter” is a bit of a mistranslation. \u00a0 In fact, “tecton” (in Mark) or “tekton” (in Mathew) is more aptly translated into a word describing a “contractor”; specifically, contracting\u00a0 as a “builder” or “handyman”.\u00a0 Not necessarily having anything to do with wood in most of the jobs he likely took.<\/p>\n

He was basically a “Mr. Fix it”.\u00a0 You had something that needed mended\/fixed, designed, or built and he was the guy to call.\u00a0 And note, this isn’t just referring to small jobs such as repairing a leaky roof or the like, though this type of thing would have likely been a part of what he did when bigger business was slow; it also refers to such things as designing and building bridges, stone temples, etc. \u00a0 So perhaps by today’s notion of the profession, he’d more likely be called an “engineer”.<\/p>\n

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