Shawn Ryan

They're not well supported.

We don't know.

And I think the reason we don't know is it's not really ultimately important.

It says he continued to grow in wisdom.

So we know that that took place.

We know his father died at some point before he got too old.

And he was probably very busy being a carpenter himself, no doubt.

But I think because the scriptures don't really go into that detail, it's probably because, man,

It's really not that important what he was doing.

But people have tried to fill it in through the years.

So you see some of these stories that will pop up in what's called non-canonical.

In other words, it's not- Very far-fetched.

Yeah, kind of far-fetched stuff.

There's one far-fetched story.

One of the stories about Christmas is that Mary was on the verge of giving birth as she's arriving in Bethlehem.

Um, we don't know that.

Uh, Luke says while they were in Bethlehem, the baby was born.

Doesn't say five minutes, doesn't say five days, doesn't say five weeks or five months.

We don't know how long she was there.

So it wasn't a big rush to get to Bethlehem for,