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Anonymous, The Gospel of Thomas: Latin Form
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The Gospel of Thomas: Latin Form.
Here Beginneth the Treatise of the Boyhood of Jesus According to Thomas.
Chapter II.—How a Schoolmaster Thrust Him Out of the City.
Chapter III.—How Jesus Went Out of Egypt.
Chapter IV.—What the Lord Jesus Did in the City of Nazareth.
Chapter V.—How the Citizens Were Enraged Against Joseph on Account of the Doings of Jesus.
Chapter VI.—How Jesus Was Treated by the Schoolmaster.
Chapter VII.—How Jesus Raised a Boy to Life.
Chapter VIII.—How Jesus Healed a Boy’s Foot.
Chapter IX.—How Jesus Carried Water in a Cloak.
Chapter X.—How Jesus Sowed Wheat.
Chapter XI.—How Jesus Made a Short Piece of Wood of the Same Length as a Longer One.
Chapter XII.—How Jesus Was Handed Over to Learn His Letters.
Chapter XIII.—How He Was Handed Over to Another Master.
Chapter XIV.—How Jesus Delivered James from the Bite of a Serpent.
Chapter XI.—How Jesus Made a Short Piece of Wood of the Same Length as a Longer One.
And Jesus reached the age of eight years. Joseph was a master builder,9 But probably architector here is equal to τέκτων, a carpenter. and used to make ploughs and ox-yokes. And one day a rich man said to Joseph: Master, make me a couch, both useful and beautiful. And Joseph was in distress, because the wood which he had brought10 Perhaps sectum, cut, is the true reading, and not actum. for the work was too short. And Jesus said to him: Do not be annoyed. Take hold of this piece of wood by one end, and I by the other; I and let us draw it out. And they did so; and immediately he found it useful for that which he wished. And He said to Joseph: Behold, do the work which thou wishest. And Joseph, seeing what He had done, embraced Him, and said: Blessed am I, because God hath given me such a son.