>For example Christ, (in one of the 'apocryphal' gospels) and his disciples come upon the decomposed corpse of a dog on the road.
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> How ugly and disgusting is death and decay the disciples explained. While Christ noted the beauty of the shining white teeth.
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nice story, but …
your link links to this:
Here is one of the sweetest and most profound of these tales. Even if you think you have heard every good Jesus story, you may have not heard this one. This story appears in a number of important Muslim sources, such as the
Musibat-nama
of Farid al-Din Attar (a great 13th century poet and mystic from a generation before the time of Rumi), and the
Khamsa
of the 12th century sage Nezami of Ganja, the famed writer of
Layla and Majnun
(whose dark-eyed beauty Layla would someday inspire Eric Clapton to write his equally immortal song of unrequited love. (
One day Jesus and his disciples were walking in the old city, which had very narrow streets. They came across the carcass of a dead dog.
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so it wasn't form an apocryphal Gospel but from Islamic tradition
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jesus-and-the-dead-dog_b_1265657?ref=religion