If Jesus was so poor and a simple carpenters son, how did he learn to how to read and write?

Question

PIn: The first half of your answer is dead on.
Northstar: Very good. Someone who has actually read the scriptures.

Blake A: Call it morbid curiosity.

Answer 1

Of course Jesus could read and write. And there is an example in Scripture of Him doing exactly that.

Luke 4:16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “ The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”

20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

Answer 2

Aside from being a rabbi, he was an Egyptian elect into a school of mysteries , the mysteries of Horus. He wasn't a simple carpenters son. His father was an alchemist and so was Jesus. Only the elite bloodline could be such. There was so much more going on here than the bible offers.The elite had always run the world. They are different from us. Copper based blood, red-gold hair, green, blue eyes. The bloodline, the ones to whom kingship was handed down.

Answer 3

If History is true and accurate. Jesus was a Jewish Rabi. Part of their Training was Reading and Writing. and also in that time just for some extra info. A Rabi was required to have at least one wife, two or three were considered better. and His family would also be taught to read and wright. The keeping of the texts in several languages was a required task for a Rabi and his family. and this was a lot of work. A GED? He would have to have been a college professor along with his wives.

Answer 4

how did he learn to how read and write?
hmm....let's see, are you middle class (you must have some money, you have a computer and Internet service), yet you can not write....

The Jews, had the regular instruction in the synagogues, of the reading of the law and the prophets.
It seems, that an education in reading Hebrew must have been available to all in Israel, for it seems that they could all read.
Is it really that outrageous to think that a culture could teach most or all of it's citizens to read and write?

In the US, there are at least a few instances of common people learning to read and write, are there not?

Plus, a person who is a carpenter, was not a poor person per se, (how you concluded that a Jewish carpenter was poor, I'll never know, plus you completely ignore the fact that the magi gave to Jesus parents gold, frankincense and myrrh when they visited Jesus when he was about two), but a person with a trade that would support easily a family.
A carpenter today is not regarded as poor, as a matter of fact, the carpentry trade pays pretty well.


So, in a final review, how is it, that with all the modern examples of countries that have education systems for the general public, that you assume that all people (or Jews in particular) could never have had the availability of education of such that would enable them to read or write?

Answer 5

How do you know if Jesus could read or write or not. as a carpenters son he would learn from his dad how to take measurement so they could build things and it would go from there.I do not recall ever reading words that jesus is said to have written down. All of every thing he is suppose to have said was mostly writting A.D.

Answer 6

what are you saying, that carpenters are dumb?
maybe Joseph the simple carpenter taught him how to read a measuring device and do the math.

sounds like what ever money was spent on your education was a waste. It should be "carpenter's" not "carpenters", plural.
Did you build your own home? or hire a carpenter (s)?

Answer 7

It is evident from events such as when he was accidentally left behind at the temple during a pilgrimages there (Luke Chapter 2 verse 42 on) that he was a highly intelligent lad. Also, it is a commandment in the scriptures that children be taught them (sorry no time to find reference).

Answer 8

I can think of a poor American, a follower of Jesus Christ, who never received much formal education, but learned to read and write quite well. His name was Abraham Lincoln.

Answer 9

What evidence do you have that he could read and write?
Of course a carpenter has to be able to figure and write down and read directions, so basic education would be included in apprenticeship which presumably occurred during his missing years. And a carpenter is not a low level position. We don't know if Joseph was young or old - the Cherry Tree Carol comes in two versions making him old in one and young in the other.

Answer 10

People fail to realize the horrifically low intelligence of a person from that time. Millions of people can't read TODAY.