Infancy Gospel of Thomas 2

1(1) The child Jesus was five years old. After it rained, he was playing at the ford of a flowing stream. He stirred up the muddy water, gathered it into pools, and made it clean and excellent, commanding it by his word alone—and not by any action. (2) Then he took soft clay from the mud and shaped twelve sparrows from it. But it was the Sabbath when he did these things, and many children were with him. (3) A certain Jew saw the child Jesus doing these things with the other children. He went to Joseph, Jesus’ father, and slandered the child Jesus, saying, “He made clay on the Sabbath, which is not permitted, and shaped twelve sparrows.” (4) Joseph went and rebuked Jesus, saying, “Why are you doing these things on the Sabbath?” But Jesus clapped his hands and, with a shout in front of everyone, commanded the birds, saying, “Go, take flight like living beings!” The sparrows took flight and went away, squawking. (5) When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed and reported it to all his friends.