Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Complete

CHAPTER IV.

1 Frag­ment of an ad­ven­ture at a dy­er’s.

AS Je­sus was pass­ing by a cer­tain shop, he saw a young man dip­ping (or dye­ing) some cloths and stock­ings in a fur­nace, of a sad colour, do­ing them ac­cord­ing to ev­ery per­son’s par­tic­ular or­der;

2 The boy Je­sus go­ing to the young man who was do­ing this, took al­so some of the cloths ……

(Here en­deth the frag­ment of Thomas’s Gospel of the In­fan­cy of Je­sus Christ.)

RE­FER­RENCE TO ST. THOMAS’S GOSPEL OF THE IN­FAN­CY OF JE­SUS CHRIST.

[The orig­inal in Greek, from which this trans­la­tion is made, will be found print­ed by Cotelerius, in his notes on the con­sti­tu­tions of the Apos­tles, from a MS. in the French King’s Li­brary, No. 2279.–It is at­tribut­ed to St. Thomas, and con­jec­tured to have been orig­inal­ly con­nect­ed with the, Gospel of Mary. Un­for­tu­nate­ly this an­cient MS. was found torn at the sec­ond verse of the fourth chap­ter.]

THE GOSPEL OF NICODE­MUS, FOR­MER­LY CALLED THE ACTS OF PON­TIUS PI­LATE.

The Gospel of NICODE­MUS, the dis­ci­ple, con­cern­ing the Suf­fer­ings and Res­ur­rec­tion of our Mas­ter and Saviour, JE­SUS CHRIST.