The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the Original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 3, Infancy of Jesus Christ

What did Jesus do as a child? The canonical Gospels skip from the nativity to a brief appearance at age twelve, leaving a three-decade silence. But early Christian communities had answers. This volume gathers the Infancy Gospels, vibrant texts from the second and third centuries that imagined the divine child at play and at work: forming birds from clay and breathing life into them, striking dead a boy who bumped into him, revealing his omniscience to amazed elders. These stories circulated widely among early Christians, revered in some communities, condemned in others. William Wake's meticulous 1707 compilation preserves the Protoevangelium of James, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and related texts that reveal how the first followers pictured their savior's hidden years. Read these not as scripture but as windows into the theological imagination of ancient believers, who saw the incarnate God at work even in the smallest miracles.