Jesus Childhood

[Montie_Claunch]

Is there anything from the Early Church Fathers or something else that we have documentatioin of Jesus’ ChildHood? Thanks and God bless.

 

[IanS]

There are some apocryphal writings (Lost Books of the Bible) about the childhood of Jesus. However, the content is very questionable, so be careful when reading them. Many of them were originally written in Hebrew and translated to Latin by the Gnostics who made them out to say what they thought they should say. Some examples are:

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Savior
The Gospel of Thomas

They can be found at the following link:
ewtn.com/library/PATRISTC/ANF8-10.TXT

 

[Angainor]

Montie Claunch:

Is there anything from the Early Church Fathers or something else that we have documentatioin of Jesus’ ChildHood? Thanks and God bless.

53When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. 54Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. 55"Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother’s name Mary, and aren’t his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? 56Aren’t all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" 57And they took offense at him.

But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor.”
58And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.
Matthew 13 (NIV)

Without knowing the details, it would seem Jesus’ childhood was pretty normal. The people from his hometown didn’t think of him as anything but normal