In a mindblowing discovery, experts have unearthed the earliest known record of Jesus Christ’s childhood, hidden within an ancient Egyptian manuscript. This 2,000yearold papyrus scroll, left forgotten in a German library for decades, has finally been deciphered, exposing an untold miracle performed by Jesus when he was just five years old. According to the tale, young Jesus molded clay pigeons on the Sabbath, and when scolded by Joseph, he commanded the birds to come to life and fly away. This incredible story, known as the “vivification of the sparrows” or the “second miracle,” was excluded from the Bible but detailed in the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas from the 2nd century. The awkward handwriting on the papyrus suggests it was part of a writing exercise in a 4th or 5thcentury Egyptian school or monastery. Predating the oldest known copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas by centuries, this fragment sheds new light on the early years of Christianity’s central figure. Join us as we delve into this astonishing find and explore its implications for our understanding of Jesus’s life and the formation of religious belief in the ancient world.
