[afraidfortherepublic]

I don't for a minute think that Jesus played cricket, as we know it. But, I am struck by an old carol that the Kingston Trio recorded in 1960 that seems to recount this story. The song is called "Mary Mild" and it tells how the ladies of the neighborhood came to Mary to complain about her Son. They said that He was exposing their sons to danger because he was playing ball on top of the water and they were afraid that their sons would drown.

They sang, "Ma-ary, mild, ca-all home your child..."

The problem was solved when, "He built them a bridge from the beams of the sun, so that they would play ball with me...."

I remember that the album cover (The Last Month of the Year) said that the Kingston Trio had carefully sought researched, translated, and arranged these very unusual old songs, some of the dating to mideival times, that comprised this album -- one of my all-time favorites.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Perhaps your ping lists would be interested in this article.

[Grizzled Bear]

YMBSM!

[dfwgator]

Jesus was quoted as saying, “That was a wicked googly!”

[uglybiker]

Dunno about cricket, but I saw a Jesus doing yardwork up the street the other day.

[Oztrich Boy]

Of course he did. His Father is an Englishman

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This sounds like the apocrophal “Protoevangelium of James” or “Infancy Gospel of James”, one of the books not included in the canonical Bible.

[Fido969]

Well, cicket may be old, but baseball is the oldest game in the world.

It's in the Bible - it's actually in the FIRST THING in the Bible.

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For it is written:

"In the BIG INNINING..."

[AnAmericanMother]

"The Bitter Withy" is the version I know.

Mary sends Jesus out to play with the caution, "Let me hear no ill of you when I come home." Some rich kids taunt Jesus that he is just a nobody, "born in an oxen's stall." After Jesus builds a bridge of sunbeams and the nasty little rich kids run over it, the bridge vanishes and they all fall in the river "and drownded were all three".

Mary needless to say is not pleased, and she pulls a withy (a willow branch) from the garden and whips Jesus with it. He curses the willow tree -

"O bitter withy, o bitter withy, that makes me so to smart,
The withy shall be the firstest tree, to wither from the heart."

I think Steeleye Span also did a version more recently.

[Alex Murphy]

Although it's rumored that Jesus was very active in all kinds of sports, I have it on good authority that Christ was a professional basketball player.

[SunkenCiv]

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[roamer_1]

I don't for a minute think that Jesus played cricket

Of course not.

It was baseball. : D