CHAPTER XIX.

1 James being bitten by a viper,

Jesus blows on the wound and cures him.

4 Jesus charged with throwing a boy from

the roof of, a house,

10 miraculously raises the dead boy to acquit him;

12 fetches water for his mother, breaks the pitcher

and miraculously gathers the water in his mantle

and brings it home;

16 makes fish pools on the Sabbath,

20 causes a boy to die who broke them down,

22 another boy runs against him,

whom he also causes to die.

ON another day Joseph sent his

son James to gather wood,

and the Lord Jesus went with

him;

2 And when they came to the

place where the wood was, and

James began to gather it, behold,

a venemous viper bit him, so that

he began to cry, and make a

noise.

3 The Lord Jesus seeing him in

this condition, came to him, and

blowed upon the place where the

viper had bit him, and it was

instantly well.

4 On a certain day the Lord

Jesus was with some boys, who

were playing on the house-top,

and one of the boys fell down, and

presently died.

5 Upon which the other boys all

running away, the Lord Jesus was

left alone on the house-top.

6 And the boy's relations came

to him and said to the Lord Jesus,

Thou didst throw our son down

from the house-top.

7 But he denying it, they cried

out, Our son is dead, and this is

he who killed him.

8 The Lord Jesus replied to

them, Do not charge me with a

crime of which you are not able to

convict me, but let us go and ask

the boy himself, who will bring

the truth to light.

9 Then the Lord Jesus going

down stood over the head of the

dead boy, and said with a loud

voice, Zeinunus, Zeinunus, who

threw thee down from the housetop?

10 Then the dead boy answered,

thou didst not throw me down,

but such a one did.

11 And when the Lord Jesus

bade those who stood by to take

present praised God on account

of that miracle.

12 On a certain time the

Lady St. Mary had commanded

the Lord Jesus to fetch her some

water out of the well;

13 And when he had gone to

fetch the water, the pitcher, when

it was brought up full, brake;

14 But Jesus spreading his mantle

gathered up the water again,

and brought it in that to his

mother;

15 Who, being astonished at

this wonderful thing, laid up this,

and all the other things which she

had seen, in her memory.

16 Again on another day the

Lord Jesus was with some boys

by a river, and they drew water

out of the river by little channels,

and made little fish-pools.

17 But the Lord Jesus had

made twelve sparrows, and placed

them about his pool on each side,

three on a side.

18 But it was the Sabbath day,

and the son of Hanani a Jew came

by, and saw them making these

things, and said, Do ye thus make

figures of clay on the Sabbath?

And he ran to them, and broke

down their fish-pools.

19 But when the Lord Jesus

clapped his hands over the sparrows

which he had made, they fled away

chirping.

20 At length the son of Hanani

coming to the fish-pool of Jesus

to destroy it, the water vanished

away, and the Lord Jesus said to

him,

21 In like manner as this water

had vanished, so shall thy life

vanish; and presently the boy

died.

22 Another time, when the

Lord Jesus was coming home in

the evening with Joseph, he met

a boy, who ran so hard against

him, that he threw him down;

23 To whom the Lord Jesus

said, As thou hast thrown me

down, so shalt thou fall, nor ever

rise.

24 And that moment the boy

fell down and died.

The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 3, Infancy of Jesus Christ · 第 16 / 19 章