Mark 6

Mark 6:3:
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

​The word translated “carpenter” is a more generic term than our English word. It conveys something more than the specific handicraft designated by the latter, and implies generally a fashioner of items in wood.
Jesus, the carpenter, is an example to all good workmen. The conviction cant be too forcibly urged that the only dishonorable employments are immoral or dishonest ones. No work can degrade you unless you first degrade your work. It is not work, but bad workmanship, that is disgraceful.

Mark 6:50:
for they all saw Him and were troubled. But immediately He talked with them and said to them, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.”

The Greek word commonly translated as “carpenter” in the Gospels is tektōn, which means builder or carpenter. In her fascinating monograph Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament, Dr. Sabine R. Huebner explains what these kinds of carpenters would do: “Tektōnes built not only roof structures for houses, but also other wooden structures such as oil mills, furniture, wagons, chariot wheels, and also barges and boats. Mechanized wooded water wheels were constructed by carpenters…Perhaps the carpenter also handled the production of wooden doors and windows, since, apart from roof structures, doors and windows were the only parts made of wood in mud-brick buildings in Roman Egypt. Together with other builders, the carpenters also built towers, storage facilities, military defense walls, bridges, and siege machines.”