Chapter 4: Jesus Curses a Careless Child

1From there, Jesus was walking with his father Joseph when someone running struck his shoulder. Jesus said to him, “May you be cursed because of your leader!”

2Immediately, he died.

3The people who saw that he had died immediately cried out and said, “Where was this child born, that his word becomes deed?”

4When the dead child’s parents saw what had happened, they blamed Joseph, his father, saying, “Wherever you got this child, you cannot live with us in this village. If you want to stay here, teach him to bless and not to curse, because our child has been taken away from us.”