Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete

CHAPTER XI.

1 Bartholomew, when a child and sick, mirac­ulous­ly re­stored by be­ing laid on Christ’s bed.

AN­OTH­ER wom­an in that city had. like­wise two son’s sick.

2 And when one was dead, the oth­er, who lay at the point of death, she took in her arms to the La­dy St. Mary, and in a flood of tears ad­dressed her­self to her, say­ing,

3 O my La­dy, help and re­lieve me; for I had two sons, the one I have just now buried, the oth­er I see is fast at the point of death be­hold how I (earnest­ly) seek for your from God, and pray to him.

4 Then she said, O Lord, thou art gra­cious, and mer­ci­ful, and kind; thou, hast giv­en me two sons; one of them thou halt tak­en to thy­self, O spare me this oth­er.

5 St. Mary then per­ceiv­ing the great­ness of her sor­row, pitied her and said, Do thou place thy son in my son’s bed, and cov­er him with his clothes.

6 And when she had placed him in the bed where­in Christ lay, at the mo­ment when his eyes were just closed by death; as soon as ev­er the small of the gar­ments of the Lord Je­sus Christ reached the boy, his eyes were opened, and call­ing with a loud voice to his moth­er, he asked for bread, and when he had re­ceived it, he sucked it.

7 Than his moth­er said, O La­dy Mary, now I am as­sured that the pow­ers of God do dwell in you, so that thy son can cure chil­dren who are of the same sort as him­self, as soon as they touch his gar­ments.

8 This boy, who was thus cured, is the same who in the Gospel is called Bartholomew.