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Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Greek text B) 3
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1Now Jesus made of that clay twelve sparrows: and it was the Sabbath day. And a child ran and told Joseph, saying: Behold, thy child playeth about the brook, and hath made sparrows of the clay, which is not lawful. 2And he when he heard it went and said to the child: Wherefore doest thou so and profaneth the Sabbath? But Jesus answered him not, but looked upon the sparrows and said: Go ye, take your flight, and remember me in your life. And at the word they took flight and went up into the air. And when Joseph saw it he was astonished.
James-ANT: M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (1924) - selections (1924) · Public Domain in the US (published 1924; James d. 1936) · M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, 1924), public domain in the US. Transcription: English Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Apocryphal_New_Testament_(1924)).