Gospel of James
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Sep 16, 2026
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
And C, those relating to the history of Pilate.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
The origins of the traditions are the Proto-Evangelium of James, the Gospel of Thomas, and the Acts of Pilate.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
All or most of the others can be referred to these three as compilations, modifications, or amplifications.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
There is abundant evidence of the existence of many of these traditions in the second century, though it cannot be made out that any of the books were then in existence in their present form.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
The greater number of the authorities on the subject, however, seem to agree in assigning to the first four centuries of the Christian era the following five books.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
One, the Proto-Evangelium of James.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
Two, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew.
Alan MapstoneNARRATOR
Three, the History of Joseph the Carpenter.
Catherine NixeyGUEST
I'm sure it's one of the ones that probably caught your eye as well.
Catherine NixeyGUEST
So this is in a gospel known as the, they all have incredibly long names, Proto-Evangelium of James.
Catherine NixeyGUEST
And it came down to us through something else called the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew.
Catherine NixeyGUEST
They've always been kind of a sort of mosaic gospels.
Will ReitzHOST
The Messianic prophecies really kick in in the second half of the Old Testament.
Will ReitzHOST
But the Proto-Evangelium...
Will ReitzHOST
Sometimes I've heard it just said Proto-Evangelium.
Will ReitzHOST
They leave out that extra O. It's Genesis 3, 14 and 15.
Will ReitzHOST
The Lord said to the serpent...
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Will ReitzHOST
And so not all Messianic prophecies, by the way, are created equal.
Will ReitzHOST
Some of them are clearer, and some of them are less clear.
Will ReitzHOST
For instance, the Proto-Evangelium, honestly, you have to have, like, centuries of Christian knowledge to see those connections.
Tim StaplesGUEST
You know, I mean, virtually everyone agrees that she was a teenager.
Tim StaplesGUEST
It goes all the way back to, to the Protoevangelium of James in 120 AD, you know? But, but yet it's Elizabeth who's kind of, "Who am I that the mother of my Lord should come unto me?" You s- You have all these little...
Tim StaplesGUEST
Your, your previous guest, who I absolutely love, this guy, I forget- Dr. Stephen Boyce.
Tim StaplesGUEST
Dr. Stephen Boyce.
Greg LanierGUEST
Yeah, we're going to circle back to that one.
Greg LanierGUEST
And the Protevangelium of James, also known as the Infancy of Mary.
Greg LanierGUEST
So there's a handful of these more mature stories.
Greg LanierGUEST
So you kind of go from loose sayings to vignettes to full compositions.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I assure you, the whole vast world, if you could arrest your power now, would stand still.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Still, the only work outside of lakes, and one little passage in my book where I try to record the experience, but I've never seen it, was in the Apocalypse of the Gospel of James.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And here in the book of James, the words are put into the mouth of Joseph, the knight of the birth of Christ, where he goes in search of a Hebrew midwife, because he wants it for his wife.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And as he starts, the heavens stood still.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's the only recorded thing that I've ever heard of.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that's in the book of James, but the Apocrypha book of James.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And you can get it, the Apocrypha New Testament, and look up as it called the infant Gospels, and look at the one under the Gospel of James.
Neville GoddardSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This was experience given as an experience of Joseph, where the night that he was born as Christ, then the heavens stood still.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
But he's making the comparison to his immediate family, w- his mother, his brothers, and his sisters.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
Matthew 13:54-58, "Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogues, so they were astonished and said, 'Where did this man get his wisdom and these mighty works? Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary? Aren't his brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?' They were offended by him.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
But Jesus said to them, 'A prophet is not without accept, uh, honor except in his own country and in his own house.' He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief." I think this is a major passage in this case, um, if you look at it, right? Because here's what, what he's saying, a couple things.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
His mother is Mary.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, 'Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom that is given to this man, as such mighty works come out of, uh, uh, about by his hands?'" Isn't this...
J. Warner WallaceHOST
Again, this is a parallel to Ma- to Matthew.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
"Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, uh, Judas, uh, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.
J. Warner WallaceHOST
Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house." He could do no mighty work there except that he laid on, his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
Gavin AshendenGUEST
And slowly but surely, I began to be educated, but it took a long time, and the quicksand of propaganda was not easy to escape from.
Gavin AshendenGUEST
But I remember the first time I came across the Protoevangelium.
Gavin AshendenGUEST
Well, let me go back one stage.
Gavin AshendenGUEST
One of the things I realized was we were involved in a war about sexuality and sexual identity.
Marcus PeterHOST
Coming into the church, letting go of everything you knew before that meant a huge amount of sacrifice.
Marcus PeterHOST
And yet you've remained stalwart in the faith ever since.
Marcus PeterHOST
And so to dive deeper into this life of being stalwart and your Marian devotion and this piece about the Proto-Evangelium of James.
Gavin AshendenGUEST
The first time I came across the Evangelium, I'd been reading a number of texts.
Marcus PeterHOST
We know that the names traditionally given to her parents, Joachim and Anne, or Anna, they come from early Christian tradition, and not even from inspired scriptures.
Marcus PeterHOST
We take it for granted that this is a tradition that was held orally, but at the same time, we see it written down in the 2nd century text, the Proto-Evangelium of James.
Marcus PeterHOST
So it's not from the canonical gospels, and yet the church honors them as Joachim and Anne.
Marcus PeterHOST
September the 8th, however, has a deeply liturgical function.
Joe McClainHOST
In fact, I have prepared yet another little... cheat sheet for you to give away a little pdf download that goes through the historicity of the blessed virgin mary and the nativity the feast day i mean this feast day in the eighth century was already being celebrated across the church not a new thing not hey guys let's go do this this looks like a fun thing to do nope it was already being celebrated It means it's older than that.
Joe McClainHOST
If you go back to the second century, you already have the pious retelling in the Proto-Evangelium of James of the virgin birth of Our Lady.
Joe McClainHOST
of her Immaculate Conception from Joachim and Anna with the same themes of Abraham and Sarah, etc.
Joe McClainHOST
We're going to get into this today.
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Joe McClainHOST
About 100 years after the death of our Savior Jesus Christ at Calvary, where the Blessed Virgin Mary sat there and watched her son die slowly so that you could have a chance at salvation.
Joe McClainHOST
Take that in for a moment.
Joe McClainHOST
So this document, Proto-Evangelium of James, was not written by James, which is why the church decided it was not included in the canon of Scripture.
Joe McClainHOST
And it was attributed to James, but it wasn't written by him.
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