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This series is based on the following recurring scenarios: Jesus is attacked or vilified by one or several boys; he curses the attacker who dies or is incapacitated. They complained to Joseph. He reveals himself, through the mouth of his teachers, as more learned than all the masters.
He reads their minds, and declares that he is before all ages. He alone knows the unknown mystery symbolized in a letter Alpha see on this behalf Irenaeus, Adv. Haereses, I, B. Zacchaeus, the teacher said after hearing Jesus…Woe is me…I desired to get a pupil, and I have found I have a teacher. The child said: I have come from above to curse them and then call them to things above… Infancy Gospel of Thomas [A], When you see my cross than you will believe that I speak the truth!
It is not he. The child was hurt and cursed him. He immediately fainted and fell on his face. And a second time, Joseph and Mary were told to send Jesus to school. Though he found the book on the lectern: instead he opened his mouth and spoke by the Holy Spirit… the crowd was amazed! Take him to your house. Infancy Gospel of Thomas [A], Again the Jews asked Mary and Joseph to go to another master to learn…They did so… And Jesus went to the school, took the book out of the hand of the master…and began to read not what was in the book.
But he spoke in the Spirit of the Living God…with such power that the master himself fell to the ground and adored him. Zeno falls from the house-top where Jesus and other boys were playing, and is dead. The parents accuse Jesus of having pushed Zeno. He returns the dead boy to life for him to testify in favor of Jesus innocence. They were playing in the upper story of the house. But one of the children fell down and died… The parents came and accused Jesus.
But he leaped down from the roof and said to Zeno. Infancy Gospel of Thomas [A], 9. One of the boys fell over a cliff and died. They all fled, except Jesus who waited for the crowd…They accused Jesus of causing his death. Irish Versified Narrative, In one instance, Joseph heals in the name of Jesus.
The axe a man uses to cleave wood walls and splits the sole of his foot. Jesus takes his injured foot in his hand and it is healed immediately. He asks the man to remember him.
The crowd worships the child because they see the spirit of God at work in him. Infancy Gospel of Thomas [A],10; [B], 9. Collecting sticks, James the son of Joseph, was bit in the hand by a viper. Jesus breathes upon the bite and James is healed. The creature bursts. The Ps-Matthew presents the same story but puts it into a different setting. James, the first born son of Joseph, gathers vegetables. A viper strikes his hand. Jesus runs up to him and blows on his hand to cool it.
James is healed: and the viper dies. The child looks up and laughs. He intimates the mother to remember him. Jesus continues to play with other children.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas [A], An accident at a construction site provokes the death of a workman. The man worships him, and so do the people praising Him as a gift from heaven. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas [A] They carry him to the place where Jesus was sitting like a king, and boys standing around him like servants.
I mean: most of you have raised children of your own already. So, what do I really know about children? I got that ethic from my own parents, growing up here in Alpena. It keeps us young. By the end of the story, despite the break-down of communication between Jesus and his parents, he leaves the Temple with them, returns to Nazareth, where I quote "he was obedient to them.
Sister Miriam Theresa Winter translates that line to say: "He went home with them to Nazareth, where he caused them no further concern. The point is, in the end, Jesus was not a youth in rebellion. And I appreciate that Luke tells us that Mary, his mother -- even though she admits to having not understood what Jesus was saying to them -- nevertheless did not forget his words.
She "treasured all these things in her heart. I believe that Luke learned of this childhood event directly from Mary. I hope that will be said of me, too. To me, Jesus does not appear to have been a divine prodigy, immune from the twists and turns of childhood and adolescence. He went through every stage of growth -- in size, in comprehension, in social development -- just as we go through them. But he was aided by 1 the stability of a godly family and 2 by the embrace of a religious community.
I feel that way, not only because Luke tells it that way, but because I lived my own faith journey within a family like that My family considered Christianity something you did every day of your life, where involvement in church traditions was habitual, and where private prayer and public worship was an exciting, creative vehicle for the expression of thoughts and emotions that would otherwise stay pent up inside. A heart for God. To develop a heart for God, we must know him, experience his love, and recognize him as the source of all things.
Once children know God loves them, that love overflows and turns their hearts to serving others. Here is how the Apostle Paul describes this in the letter to the Philippians:. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. What if our children were so confident in how they are loved by God that they could not help sharing that love with their friends? Yes, children and adults are called to be like Jesus—to grow in wisdom and stature and favor. And here is the greatest thing: As we strive to be more like Jesus, as we study him and spend time with him, the Bible tells us that we actually do become more like Him:.
For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. When we follow Jesus, the good news does not stop there.
Even more importantly, we will be with Jesus in eternity and be perfectly like Him as he rules eternity forever. We are content with the glorious truth that we will be with Christ and like Christ. We hope you stick around to read the whole series.
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