Be Still And Know

Luke 8:20-21 For 30 years, Jesus had lived with his family and, apparently, no one had taken much notice of him. Certainly, we have no record of him coming to public attention. But now, suddenly, he had started a ministry which was drawing huge crowds. His own family wanted to speak with him – and they had to queue up with everyone else! It must have been a very strange experience for them. The fact that Joseph isn’t mentioned in this account has led many to believe that he was dead by this point. We have no firm knowledge of this. He might have been busy working in his carpentry shop, although the fact that there isn’t a single mention of him during the years of Jesus’ public ministry supports the view that he had passed away. Certainly, if he had been alive at the time of Jesus’ death, it wouldn’t have been necessary for Jesus to address John from the cross, asking him to look after Mary. And it would have been usual for Joseph, as Jesus’ father, to take responsibility for burying Jesus, not for tha