The difficulty presented by the traditional description of this incident also indicates a reason why the literal translation of the Greek text has been used in Version Three of Reality Search  and as a basis here together with the Greek itself, for paraphrasing. At times popular descriptions of a text can be misleading.  On the other hand if a reader is unhappy with a paraphrase of the text given here they are welcome to revert to the literal translation available in  Version Five of Reality Search.

 

As noted in previous versions of Reality Search the gospels Sections about “the child” do not follow the same pattern as the other Sections there.  Therefore minimal attempt has been made to analyse the ‘child’ Sections.

 

This whole passage above reminds one of a verse in the psalms referring to adults who are "still bearing fruit when they are old, still full of sap, still green." It also calls to mind a verse from the Taoist book "Tao Te Ching"  "..........Can you become as supple as a babe?"