Who Jesus Was - Part 7: Did He Play Games?
Written by: Delbert Magusara Haim
December 6, 2012
When you ask me did Jesus play games in his youth? Basically, I can only say that a child will always play games but this Jesus I should let the scriptures speak about him?
It is a Jewish tradition that every year there will be a feast celebration in 40 days. Surely most of their children will play after the holy convocation had been made. But this Jesus I am not sure if he did play with them when he was a child because as we have learned in our previous study about him in this article: (Please click this link if you missed it) http://delbertstudies.weebly.com/8-who-jesus-was---part-5-his-body-figure.html, he was a matured child in his young age and talked with heavenly things. He always do study scriptures until such time, at the age of twelve he tried to ask question to men who also knew what he had learned.
The scripture doesn't mentioned any clear proof about Jesus' games but in my own opinion base from those passages above, I think He was a gifted child unlike us and acts like a man. And if He lived as a wise man, then surely He don't like childish things. But there is ancient manuscript discovered by a Terian that says; Jesus did play a game in a form of cricket at the age of nine.
Accordingly:
Terian notes that in the Armenian Gospel of the Infancy, translated into Armenian in the 6th century from a much older lost Syriac original, a passage tells of Jesus playing what may well be the precursor of cricket, with a club and ball.
Terian, who discovered the manuscript more than a decade ago at the Saint James Armenian Monastery in the Old City of Jerusalem, says he has now identified the same passage in a couple of other manuscripts of the same gospel of which some 40 copies exist in various archival collections in Europe and the Middle East, including the oldest copy now in Yerevan, the capital of the Armenian Republic.
The latter manuscript is dated 1239, whereas the undated Jerusalem manuscript is considerably later.
Quoting from his Armenian source, Terian says the gospel relates how Jesus, at the age of nine, had been
apprenticed to a master dyer named Israel in Tiberias, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
"Jesus is instructed to watch Israel's house and not leave the place while the master goes away on a tour to collect clothes to be dyed. But no sooner has Israel left the house, than Jesus runs out with the boys," The Daily Telegraph quoted Terian, as saying.
"The most amazing part of the story of the nine-year-old Jesus playing a form of cricket with the boys at the sea shore, is that he would go on playing the game on water, over the sea waves," he added.
He gives the following translation: "He (Jesus) would take the boys to the seashore and, carrying the playing ball and the club, he would go over the waves of the sea as though he was playing on a frozen surface, hitting the playing ball.
What do you think?
In understanding Jesus’ life in the flesh, you can now judge by your own base from the records given.
December 6, 2012
When you ask me did Jesus play games in his youth? Basically, I can only say that a child will always play games but this Jesus I should let the scriptures speak about him?
- Lev 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
It is a Jewish tradition that every year there will be a feast celebration in 40 days. Surely most of their children will play after the holy convocation had been made. But this Jesus I am not sure if he did play with them when he was a child because as we have learned in our previous study about him in this article: (Please click this link if you missed it) http://delbertstudies.weebly.com/8-who-jesus-was---part-5-his-body-figure.html, he was a matured child in his young age and talked with heavenly things. He always do study scriptures until such time, at the age of twelve he tried to ask question to men who also knew what he had learned.
- Luk 2:46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
- Luk 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature
The scripture doesn't mentioned any clear proof about Jesus' games but in my own opinion base from those passages above, I think He was a gifted child unlike us and acts like a man. And if He lived as a wise man, then surely He don't like childish things. But there is ancient manuscript discovered by a Terian that says; Jesus did play a game in a form of cricket at the age of nine.
Accordingly:
Terian notes that in the Armenian Gospel of the Infancy, translated into Armenian in the 6th century from a much older lost Syriac original, a passage tells of Jesus playing what may well be the precursor of cricket, with a club and ball.
Terian, who discovered the manuscript more than a decade ago at the Saint James Armenian Monastery in the Old City of Jerusalem, says he has now identified the same passage in a couple of other manuscripts of the same gospel of which some 40 copies exist in various archival collections in Europe and the Middle East, including the oldest copy now in Yerevan, the capital of the Armenian Republic.
The latter manuscript is dated 1239, whereas the undated Jerusalem manuscript is considerably later.
Quoting from his Armenian source, Terian says the gospel relates how Jesus, at the age of nine, had been
apprenticed to a master dyer named Israel in Tiberias, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
"Jesus is instructed to watch Israel's house and not leave the place while the master goes away on a tour to collect clothes to be dyed. But no sooner has Israel left the house, than Jesus runs out with the boys," The Daily Telegraph quoted Terian, as saying.
"The most amazing part of the story of the nine-year-old Jesus playing a form of cricket with the boys at the sea shore, is that he would go on playing the game on water, over the sea waves," he added.
He gives the following translation: "He (Jesus) would take the boys to the seashore and, carrying the playing ball and the club, he would go over the waves of the sea as though he was playing on a frozen surface, hitting the playing ball.
What do you think?
In understanding Jesus’ life in the flesh, you can now judge by your own base from the records given.