Apocryphal Gospels

British  

plural noun

1. accounts of Christ's life that are not recognized as part of the New Testament

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Example Sentences

It presented the biblical story of Christ's birth using a libretto that he and director Peter Sellars assembled from both the traditional and apocryphal gospels together with poems by 20th-century Mexican women.

From The Guardian

He left out some curious stuff, like The Bitter Withy and The Seven Virgins, which are very old songs from the Apocryphal Gospels.

From The Guardian

It is a gigantic trilogy, into which are fused and co-ordinated all the dramatic representations borrowed for three centuries from the canonical and apocryphal gospels.

From Project Gutenberg

His mother seemed to have expected a miracle, yet in the Fourth Gospel the Cana wonder was the beginning of miracle working by Jesus; the apocryphal gospels assert that Jesus practised miracle working as a child.

From Project Gutenberg

This chapel was built, as its name denotes, in honour of the Virgin; above and below its canopies stood figures of exquisite grace, representing, for the most part, scenes from her life as related in the Apocryphal Gospels and later legends then current.

From Project Gutenberg