A recently discovered 1,600-year-old papyrus is the earliest known manuscript of the Infancy Gospel. The apocryphal stories about Jesus' childhood fascinate the world, but they are not new." ...

So some of the “apocryphal” writings were side-lined, or even suppressed. But the vast majority simply stopped being reproduced. By the end of the 4th Century, the Gospels of Matthew ...

The triumphal arch, decorated with episodes from the life of Jesus, includes the only scene of the encounter with Governor Aphrodisius, taken from the apocryphal Gospels. In the 12th century, under ...