This child Jesus, when five years old, was playing in the ford of a mountain stream; and He collected the flowing waters into pools, and made them clear immediately, and by a word alone He made them obey Him.
2And having made some soft clay, He fashioned out of it twelve sparrows.
3And it was the Sabbath when He did these things.
4And there were also many other children playing with Him.
5And a certain Jew, seeing what Jesus was doing, playing on the Sabbath, went off immediately, and said to his father Joseph: Behold, thy son is at the stream, and has taken clay, and made of it twelve birds, and has profaned the Sabbath.
6And Joseph, coming to the place and seeing, cried out to Him, saying: Wherefore doest thou on the Sabbath what it is not lawful to do?
7And Jesus clapped His hands, and cried out to the sparrows, and said to them: Off you go!
8And the sparrows flew, and went off crying.
9And the Jews seeing this were amazed, and went away and reported to their chief men what they had seen Jesus doing.