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First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ: Chapter XIV

1.ANOTHER woman likewise lived there, whose son was possessed by Satan.

2.This boy, named Judas, as often as Satan seized him, was inclined to bite all that were present; and if he found no one else near him, he would bite his own hands and other parts.

3.But the mother of this miserable boy, hearing of St. Mary and her son Jesus, arose presently, and taking her son in her arms, brought him to the Lady Mary.

4.In the meantime, James and Joses had taken away the infant, the Lord Jesus, to play at a proper season with other children; and when they went forth, they sat down and the Lord Jesus with them.

5.Then Judas, who was possessed, came and sat down at the right hand of Jesus.

6.When Satan was acting upon him as usual, he went about to bite the Lord Jesus.

7.And because he could not do it, he struck Jesus on the right side, so that he cried out.

8.And in the same moment Satan went out of the boy, and ran away like a mad dog.

9.This same boy who struck Jesus, and out of whom Satan went in the form of a dog, was Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him to the Jews.

10.And that same side, on which Judas struck him, the Jews pierced with a spear.