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The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour

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Section 50

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50. And when He was twelve years old,

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they

took

Him

to

Jerusalem

to

the

feast

.

And

when

the

feast

was

finished

,

they

indeed

returned

;

but

the

Lord

Jesus

remained

in

the

temple

among

the

teachers

and

elders

and

learned

men

of

the

sons

of

Israel

,

to

whom

He

put

various

questions

upon

the

sciences

,

and

gave

answers

in

His

turn

.

For

He

said

to

them

:

Whose

son

is

the

Messias

?

They

answered

Him

:

The

son

of

David

.

Wherefore

then

,

said

He

,

does

he

in

the

Spirit

call

him

his

lord

,

when

he

says

,

The

Lord

said

to

my

lord

,

Sit

at

my

right

hand

,

that

I

may

put

thine

enemies

under

thy

footsteps

?

Again

the

chief

of

the

teachers

said

to

Him

:

Hast

thou

read

the

books

?

Both

the

books

,

said

the

Lord

Jesus

,

and

the

things

contained

in

the

books

.

And

He

explained

the

books

,

and

the

law

,

and

the

precepts

,

and

the

statutes

,

and

the

mysteries

,

which

are

contained

in

the

books

of

the

prophets

—

things

which

the

understanding

of

no

creature

attains

to

.

That

teacher

therefore

said

:

I

hitherto

have

neither

attained

to

nor

heard

of

such

knowledge

:

Who

,

pray

,

do

you

think

that

boy

will

be

?

Notes

21
Luke ii. 42–47. [A comparison of the two narratives is very suggestive. The Evangelist Luke does not present any such monster of precocity, nor does he adventure into discussions “upon the sciences.”—R.]
22
Ps. cx. 1; Matt. xxii. 42–45. [The Latin reads: vestigiis pedum tuorum, “the footsteps of thy feet.” The original term, “footstool,” has evidently been misunderstood by some transcriber.—R.]