An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity

1:1 I, Thomas the Israelite, thought it necessary to inform all the brothers from the Gentiles about all the magnificent childhood deeds that our Lord Jesus Christ performed as he lived bodily in the city of Nazareth.

Jesus curses a child

2:1 When he came to the fifth year of his life, one day when there had been a rain, having left the house where his mother was, he was playing in the dirt, where water was flowing down. Where he made pools, the water came down, and the pools were filled with water. Then he said, “I want you to become pure and excellent water.” And immediately it became so. 2 A certain child of Annas the scribe came through. Picking up a willow branch, he messed up the pools with the branch, and the water poured out. Jesus turned and said to him, “Impious transgressor, how did the pools hurt you that you should empty them? You will not proceed on your way, but will wither away like the branch that you hold.” 3 Going on, after a little while he fell down and expired. When the children who were playing with him saw it, they were amazed and went and told the father of the dead child. He came running and found the child dead, and he went to Joseph complaining.