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Gospel of Nicodemus 6

Pseudepigrapha — not canonical

Roberts & Donaldson / Alexander Walker, Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 8 (1886) — Latin Form A (Acts of Pilate 1–16, Descensus 17–27, Letter of Pilate to Claudius 28–29). These texts are not endorsed in any LDS canon — see framing.

1And of the Jews a certain other one, starting up, asks the governor that he might say a word. The governor says: What you wish to say, say. And he said: For thirty-eight years I lay in infirmity in my bed in very grievous pain. And at the coming of Jesus, many demoniacs, and persons held down by various infirmities, were healed by him. And some young men had pity on me; and carrying me in my bed, laid me before him. And Jesus, seeing, had pity on me, and said the word to me, Take up your bed, and walk. And immediately I was made whole; I took up my bed, and walked. The Jews say to Pilate: Ask him what was the day on which he was healed. He said: The Sabbath. The Jews say: Have we not so informed you, that on the Sabbath he heals, and drives out demons?

2And a certain other Jew starting up, said: I was born blind; I heard a voice, and saw no man. And as Jesus was passing by, I cried out with a loud voice, Have pity upon me, you son of David. And he had pity upon me, and laid his hands upon my eyes, and I saw immediately. And another Jew starting up, said: I was hunchbacked, and he straightened me with a word. And another said: I was leprous, and he healed me with a word.

Public-domain text. Pseudepigrapha are extra-canonical witnesses to the Second Temple and early Christian worlds; read with discernment. The Apocrypha endorsement in D&C 91 does not extend to these texts.