Chapter 41.
And they went away from Capernaum into the city
which is called Bethlehem; and Joseph lived with Mary in his own house,
and Jesus with them. And on a certain day Joseph called to him
his first-born son James,1688
and sent him
into the vegetable
garden to
gather vegetables for the purpose of
making broth. And
Jesus followed His
brother James into the
garden; but
Joseph and
Mary did not know this. And while James
was collecting the vegetables, a
viper suddenly came out of a
hole and
struck his
hand,
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and he began
to
cry out from excessive
pain. And, becoming exhausted, he said,
with a
bitter cry: Alas! alas! an accursed
viper has struck my
hand. And
Jesus, who was standing opposite to him, at the
bitter
cry ran up to James, and took hold of his
hand; and all that He did was
to blow on the
hand of James, and cool it: and immediately James
was
healed, and the
serpent died. And
Joseph and
Mary did not
know what had been done; but at the
cry of James, and the command of
Jesus, they ran to the garden, and found the serpent already dead, and
James quite cured.
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