banana said:
Are you referring to the apocrypha books? I have not read them myself but some time ago in a sunday school class our church pastor gave an outline of them and read excerpts, and there's nothing remotely like what you described. If you are referring to texts that I am unaware of, I would like to remind you to evaluate the truthfulness of the information based on its origin, purpose, style, intended audience, and historical accuracy. Also, check whether the texts refer specifically to Jesus of Nazareth, because other people also shared that name.
Although this question has been answered, vis-a-vis the Infancy Gospels, I thought I'd like to clarify something here, somthing which I had erroneously thought was widely understood. Then I read a review of the
Anchor Bible commentaries, which expressed considerable surprise that the Anchor Bible volume on the Apocrypha "didn't even include the Gospel of Thomas!"
The Apocrypha, and "books which simply didn't end up in the Bible", are two different things. On a technical level, the Apocrypha are those books (or parts of books) initially discarded by the Jewish scholars at Jamnia in 90 CE or thereabouts and are therefore not to be found in the Hebrew scripture, which nonetheless were still in the Septuagint (LXX), the 2nd Century BCE Alexandrian Greek translation of the Jewish Scripture, upon which was based Jerome's Latin translation (the Vulgate) which in turn became the basis for all Catholic bibles.
Books considered Apocryphal:
The Book of Tobit
The Book of Judith
The First Book of Maccabees
The Second Book of Maccabees
1 Esdras and 2 Esdras (in Catholic bibles, Ezra is called 1 Esdras and Nehemiah is called 2 Esdras, so 1 Esdras is called 3 Esdras and 2 Esdras is called 4 Esdras).
Susanna (Chapter 13 of Daniel)
Bel and the Dragon (Chapter 14 of Daniel)
The Prayer of Manasses (not sure where this is, possibly the book of Jeremiah)
The Book of Baruch (Baruch was Jeremiah's amanuensis, but the book was evidently written in the first century BCE or at least 400 years after Jeremiah's time).
The Wisdom of Solomon (or The Book of Wisdom)
Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiast
es) - also known as The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, or simply Ben Sira
Psalm 151.
As far as I am aware there are no "apocryphal" books in the New Testament except an epistle (I think) called Clement which is only accepted (or really even known about) in the Orthodox Christian church.
All of these books appear in various different versions of the Bible (though outside Catholic bibles they are quite hard to find, particularly in the King James translation. I myself managed to find only a single edition in my local bookshop which included Apocrypha, the New Jerusalem Bible; apparently a Catholic inspired translation which however retained the traditional Herbraic names for the OT books (Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah) and omits the Esdras books I mentioned).
Books which simply didn't make the cut in the first place, such as the Gospel of Thomas, the various Infancy Gospels and, for the OT, the Book of Enoch, for instance, are
not "the Apocrypha". They are simply old books which contain Biblical material or references but which have never been included in any standard Bible.