He lived for thirty years among socially insignificant members of a negligible nation—though one with a rich tradition of divine covenant and interaction. He grew up in the home of the carpenter for the little Middle-Eastern village of Nazareth. After his father, Joseph, died, he became “the man of the house” and helped his mother raise the rest of the family. He was an ordinary workman: a “blue-collar” worker. He did all this to be with us, to be one of us, to “arrange for the delivery” of his life to us. It must be no simple thing to make it possible for human beings to receive the eternal
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