thy sins.

6 Then the Lord Jesus answered,
and said to his mother, When
thirty years are expired, O mother,
the Jews will crucify me at
Jerusalem;

7 And these two thieves shall
be with me at the same time upon
the cross, Titus on my right hand,
and Dumachus on my left, and
from that time Titus shall go before
me into paradise;

8 And when she had said, God
forbid this should be thy lot, O
my son, they went on to a city in
which were several idols; which,
as soon as they came near to it,
was turned into hills of sand.

9 Hence they went to that
sycamore tree, which is now called
Matarea.

10 And in Materea the Lord
Jesus caused a well to spring
forth, in which St. Mary washed
his coat;

11 And a balsam is produced,
or grows, in that country, from
the sweat which ran down there
from the Lord Jesus.

12 Thence they proceeded to
Memphis, and saw Pharoah, and
abode three years in Egypt.

13 And the Lord Jesus did very
many miracles, in Egypt, which
are neither to be found in
Gospel of the Infancy nor in the
Gospel of Perfection.

14 At the end of three years
he returned out of Egypt, and
when he came near to Judea,
Joseph was afraid to enter;

15 For hearing that Herod was
dead, and that Archelaus his son
reigned in his stead, he was afraid.

16 And when he went to Judea,
an, angel of God appeared to
him, and said, O Joseph go
into the city of Nazareth, and
abide there.

17 It is strange indeed, that he,
who is the Lord of all countries,
should be thus carried backward and
forward, through so many countries.

CHAPTER IX.

2 Two sick children cured by water
wherein Christ was washed.

WHEN they came afterwards
into the city of Bethlehem,
they found there several very
desperate distempers, which became
so troublesome to children by seeing
them, that most of them died.

2 There was there a woman who
had a sick son, whom she brought,
when he was at the point of death,
to the Lady St. Mary, who saw
her when she was washing Jesus
Christ.

3 Then said the woman, O my
Lady Mary, look down upon this
my son, who is afflicted with most
dreadful pains.

4 St. Mary hearing her, said,
Take a little of that water with
which I have washed my son, and
sprinkle it upon him.

5 Then she took a little of that
water, as St. Mary had commanded,
and sprinkled it upon her son,
who being wearied with his violent
pains, was fallen asleep; and after
he had slept a litt