
Most of what Christians know about Jesus comes straight from the Bible, as it should. That knowledge, however, is largely limited to the circumstances of his birth, which we celebrate at Christmas, his three-year ministry, and his death, which we Mark at Easter.
But what about all the years in between? How did people around him regard him when he was a carpenter? What was Jesus like as a child, or an adolescent?
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Former Catholic priest Joseph Girzone sought to flesh out some answers in his 1998 book called A Portrait of Jesus. Girzone was a writing veteran by this time, as author of the very popular “Joshua” series of books.
So here now, from 1998 Joseph Girzone.
Joseph Girzone died in 2015. He w3as 95.