Christmas trivia

In "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" the hero identifies the cup of Christ by the fact that it is a simple wooden cup - "...now that's the cup of a carpenter". But was he? This is based on the assumption that he would follow his father's trade, and the bible tells us that Joseph was a carpenter. But the original Greek word is tekton and the translation of this as "carpenter" is simplistic at best. The idea that he was just a simple woodworker is almost certainly wide of the mark. He was more likely a builder, probably with men working for him. Perhaps understandably, the bible wishes to portray Jesus and his family as simple peasants (born in a manger and all that) but the probability is that they were people of some social status.