... Joseph was a true father for the growing Jesus - the only one he ever knew, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph ...?" (John 6:42) And again, "Is not this Joseph’s son?" (Luke 4:22) FATHER How much the word father means. What would Jesus’ early ... in the life of a child. Joseph the Carpenter was that man for the boy Jesus. 1. "The Little Child" by Albert Bigelow Paine in Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. by Morrison (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948), p. 170. 2. "The Father" by Dorothy ...
