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tilthat T1,1_ there is no physical description of Jesus in the Bible. volcel-official False Luke 2:52 He's larger than a baby amateuropinions By the description of him driving the moneylenders from the temple, we can also tell that he fit inside the temple, which gives us an upper bound as well as a lower bound on his size. F7:1 veraxplus Ysf. It's been said that Jesus Christ was larger than a baby but smaller than a temple
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Probably not a carpenter. The Greek word tektōn translates as craftsman or builder, not specifically carpenter. And given the relative scarcity of wood in the region, modern scholars think that Joseph would have been a stonemason.

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