When he was in heaven, before he was miraculously conceived by his virgin mother, as wisdom personified, he explained: “I came to be beside [God] as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day. ”
وَكَمَا يَبْدُو ،‏ تَعَلَّمَ يَسُوعُ هذِهِ ٱلْمِهْنَةَ مِنْ يُوسُفَ ،‏ فَصَارَ هُوَ أَيْضًا نَجَّارًا .‏