A newly translated manuscript has now been confirmed to have been the oldest one about Jesus Christ’s childhood. 

The document was identified as the earliest surviving copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, with the discovery achieved by Dr. Lajos Berkes from Humboldt University and professor Gabriel Nocchi Macedo from the University of Liege in Belgium. The two dated the manuscript to somewhere between the 4th and 5th centuries, beating the previously held record for the oldest manuscript on Jesus’s childhood by about 600 years.