There are a few theories about whether Jesus was disabled, not least in ‘The Disabled God’ by Nancy Eiesland, in which she argues that disability should be understood as a way that God is revealed and experienced in the world; God present in the struggles, pain, and resilience of disabled people.

But I’ve been thinking more about whether Jesus was actually experienced disability himself, and what we might learn from what the Gospels tell us about that experience. Here’s a few things that arose from this musing…