ONE DAY, JESUS CHRIST had had enough of working miracles and decided to search for his father. All he knew was that he was called Joseph, and he was a carpenter.
He searched the villages, going door to door. Then he searched nearby towns, and even different countries. Eventually, he knocked on the door of a ramshackle house on the edge of a distant town. An old man answered.
‘Is your name Joseph?’ Jesus asked.
‘Yes,’ said the old man.
‘And are you a carpenter?’
‘Yes,’ said the old man.
‘And did you have a single son?’
‘Yes,’ said the old man.
‘Daddy!’ Jesus exclaimed.
The old man peered at him, and a tear appeared in the corner of his eye.
‘Pinocchio!’
