Infancy Gospels
Several surviving infancy gospels give an idea of the miracle literature that was created in the early Christian church to satisfy the hunger of early Christians for more detail about the early life of their Savior. In Greek an infancy gospel was termed a protevangelion, a 'pre-Gospel' narrating events of Jesus' life before those recorded in the four canonical gospels.
None of the miraculous Infancy gospels were accepted into the canon, but the very number of their surviving manuscripts attest to their continued popularity.
They include the following literature:
The Infancy Gospel of James
See under Gospel of James
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The miraculous deeds performed by Jesus as a child include the fashioning of sparrows from clay, which took wing and flew away.
The Infancy Gospel of Matthew
The Infancy Gospel of Mark
The Arabic Infancy Gospel
See also Sources about Jesus
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