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Infancy Gospel of Thomas (Greek text B) 7
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1Now Zacchaeus wrote the alphabet in Hebrew, and saith unto him: Alpha. And the young child said: Alpha. And again the master said: Alpha, and the young child likewise. Then again the third time the master said: Alpha. Then Jesus looked upon the teacher and said: Thou that knowest not the Alpha, how canst thou teach another the Beta? And the child beginning at the Alpha said of his own accord the two and twenty letters. 2And thereafter saith he: Hear, O master the ordinance of the first letter, and know how many incomings and lines it hath, and marks, common, going apart, and coming together. And when Zacchaeus heard such designations of the one letter he was amazed and had nothing to answer; and turning about he said unto Joseph: My brother, this child is of a truth not earthly born: take him away therefore from me.
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)).