Salutation / Introduction

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God.

With the help and favour of the Most High we begin to write a book of the miracles of our Lord and Master and Saviour Jesus Christ, which is called the Gospel of the Infancy:  in the peace of the Lord.  Amen.

Wonderful indeed, that the Lord of the world should be thus borne and carried about through the world!

Then the son of Hanan came up to the fish-pond of Jesus also, and kicked it with his shoes, and the water of it vanished away.  And the Lord Jesus said to him:  As that water has vanished away, so thy life shall likewise vanish away.  And immediately that boy dried up.

Here endeth the whole Gospel of the Infancy, with the aid of God Most High, according to what we have found in the original.