Chapter 17: Jesus Heals a Baby

Hagios Saba 259 lacks Chapters 17 and 18. Consequently, the two chapters presented here are based on later Greek manuscripts.

1. And after these things, in Joseph’s neighborhood a certain baby was sick and died. And his mother wept very much.

But Jesus heard that there was great grief and commotion, and he ran quickly. And he found the child dead, touched his chest, and said, “I say to you, baby, don’t die, but live, and be with your mother.”

And he (the baby) looked up immediately and laughed. And he (Jesus) said to the mother, “Take your child, give him milk, and remember me.”

2. And the crowd standing there was amazed, and said, “The truth is, this child is a god or an angel, because his every word becomes a deed!”

And Jesus went away again and played with the children.

Translator’s notes.

Chapters 17 and 18: For the Greek transcript followed here, cf. Constantin von Tischendorf, Evangelia Apocrypha (2nd ed.; Leipzig: Mendelssohn), 1876, pp: 140-157, in Rick Brannan, Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments & Agrapha: Texts and Transcriptions (Lexham Press), 2013; Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Pleše, The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations (Oxford University Press), 2011.