An account of Jesus as a boy is decoded from an ancient papyrus scrap
Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered
"The few words on the fragment show that the text describes the beginning of the ‘vivification of the sparrows’, an episode from Jesus' childhood that is considered the “second miracle” in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas: Jesus plays at the ford of a rushing stream and moulds twelve sparrows from the soft clay he finds in the mud. When his father Joseph rebukes him and asks why he is doing such things on the holy Sabbath, the five-year-old Jesus claps his hands and brings the clay figures to life."
Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered
"The few words on the fragment show that the text describes the beginning of the ‘vivification of the sparrows’, an episode from Jesus' childhood that is considered the “second miracle” in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas: Jesus plays at the ford of a rushing stream and moulds twelve sparrows from the soft clay he finds in the mud. When his father Joseph rebukes him and asks why he is doing such things on the holy Sabbath, the five-year-old Jesus claps his hands and brings the clay figures to life."
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