When this boy Jesus was five years old
he was playing at the ford of a brook,
and he gathered together into pools the water
that flowed by, and made it at once clean,
and commanded it by his word alone.
But the son of Annas the scribe was standing
there with Joseph; and he took a branch
of a willow and (with it) dispersed
the water which Jesus had gathered together.
When Jesus saw what he had done,
he was enraged and said to him:
"You insolent, godless dunderhead,
what harm did the pools and the water
do to you? See, now you also shall wither
like a tree and shall bear neither leaves
nor root nor fruit." And immediately
that lad withered up completely;
and Jesus departed and went into Joseph's house.
But the parents of him that was withered
took him away, bewailing his youth,
and brought him to Joseph and reproached him:
"What a child you have who does such things."
After this again he went through the village,
and a lad ran and knocked against his shoulder.
Jesus was exasperated and said to him:
"You shall not go further on your way,"
and the child immediately fell down and died.
But some, who saw what took place, said:
"From where does this child spring, since every word
                                               is an accomplished deed?"