# The only object Jesus made was a whip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236 "2019-02-26T12:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/21 "2019-02-26T22:33:00Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > write simple phrases as used in graffiti. Such as _Romanes eunt domus_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/22 "2019-02-26T23:57:28Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Only in sources such as the _Infancy Gospel of Thomas_ and the _Quran_. No canonical Christian text has this, AFAIK. The [Qur’an](https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Parallelism:_Jesus_Christ_and_Clay_Birds), yes. The OP didn’t specify “canonical Christian sources,” did it? It’s still good ol’ Jesus. And it’s such a cool little episode. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/23 "2019-02-27T00:07:45Z")
According to the Gospels, at least, Jesus wasn’t just scrawl-his-name literate: Even as a child, he was impressing the priests with his scholarship of the Law, and at least once as an adult was called upon in Temple to read the Torah. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/24 "2019-02-27T03:58:47Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Such as _Romanes eunt domus_. 😉 People called _Romanes_, they go the 'ouse? ---
**Author:** ![Toledo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@Toledo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toledo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/25 "2019-02-27T04:10:33Z")
I think the idea is “Romans go home!”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/26 "2019-02-27T05:45:24Z")
> [@Toledo\_Jim](#): > > I think the idea is “Romans go home!”. That would be [_Romani ite domum_.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_ite_domum) Now write it out 100 times. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/27 "2019-02-27T09:22:44Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > The [Qur’an](https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Parallelism:_Jesus_Christ_and_Clay_Birds), yes. The OP didn’t specify “canonical Christian sources,” did it? The OP specified “the Good Book”, which is generally not taken to include the Quran and most apocryphal writings. Even Bibles that include a set of books labelled as “Apocrypha” generally don’t include the one with the story about the clay bird. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/28 "2019-02-27T15:47:47Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > The OP specified “the Good Book”, which is generally not taken to include the Quran and most apocryphal writings. Even Bibles that include a set of books labelled as “Apocrypha” generally don’t include the one with the story about the clay bird. Doesn’t matter. It’s still a Jesus story. The choices of which books were to be canonical were arbitrary anyway, voted on by committees of ordinary humans with their mundane political motivations in play. I don’t see how that counts for much after all. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/29 "2019-02-27T16:28:14Z")
Well, you have to have some standard for which sources we’re accepting, or someone is going to come in with a cite from _The Davinci Code_ or some such nonsense. And the list of sources already chosen by that long-dead committee of old men is as good a list as any. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/30 "2019-02-27T16:40:40Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Doesn’t matter. It’s still a Jesus story. The choices of which books were to be canonical were arbitrary anyway, voted on by committees of ordinary humans with their mundane political motivations in play. I don’t see how that counts for much after all. It matters if that was part of the OP’s request, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/31 "2019-02-27T17:43:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > But we are talking about things he made with his hands, which seems to be wine and whips…which puts him even higher in my book. […and although he was ostensibly trained as a carpenter…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGQRBkv4di8) ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/32 "2019-02-28T03:46:36Z")
> [@Toledo\_Jim](#): > > I think the idea is “Romans go home!”. How many Romans?? I laugh my ass off at that sketch every time I see it. Cleese is like a high school foreign language professor on steroids. > [@Colibri](#): > > That would be [_Romani ite domum_.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_ite_domum) > > Now write it out 100 times. 😉 By sunrise. Or I’ll cut your balls off. Hail Caesar! ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/33 "2019-02-28T04:24:04Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > No doubt the authors of the gospels decided they weren’t interested (or couldn’t find a parable) in his supposed apprenticeship. Just as they don’t report much, if anything, about his favourite foods or taste in music… He wasn’t a fan of Judas Priest ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/34 "2019-02-28T04:42:56Z")
OK, from the canonical gospels then. You know at the end of the Gospel according to John where it says Jesus said and did so many other things that if they were all written down the world wouldn’t be big enough to hold the books? Well, that bird was one of them. ---
**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/35 "2019-02-28T04:53:07Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > He made the blind see, healed the sick and interpreted the scriptures in a way that thoroughly impressed and confounded the rabbis. So he is more than just a carpenter/wine maker/whip maker, he is a akin to a PhD with multiple talents, a biblical Leonardo da Vinci you might say. I bet he would be awesome at Jeopardy. Jesus is a Gary Stu. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/36 "2019-02-28T22:01:08Z")
> [@road\_lobo](#): > > Jesus is a Gary Stu. And Mary’s middle name is “Sue”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/37 "2019-02-28T22:15:51Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > OK, from the canonical gospels then. You know at the end of the Gospel according to John where it says Jesus said and did so many other things that if they were all written down the world wouldn’t be big enough to hold the books? Well, that bird was one of them. John 21:25 \*And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.\*That isn’t canonical testimony that supports your claim, any more than it is canonical testimony that supports the claim that Jesus made an elephant fly. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/38 "2019-03-01T11:29:14Z")
Jesus built my hotrod. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/39 "2019-03-01T14:05:15Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Jesus built my hotrod. > > CMC fnord! That’s why he took the wheel? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236/40 "2019-03-01T17:12:18Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > John 21:25 \*And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.\*That isn’t canonical testimony that supports your claim, any more than it is canonical testimony that supports the claim that Jesus made an elephant fly. You guys are no fun at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-object-jesus-made-was-a-whip/830236.md?page=3)