batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l11082-l11146
---
record_id: batch.motif.islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg-l11082-l11146
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
passage_locator:
label: CHAPTER II. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER III. / IN THE
NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 11082-11146
start: '11082'
end: '11146'
translation: The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: Who will be my helpers towards GOD?
summary: Translator notes discuss traditions of Jesus speaking before or soon after
birth, childhood animation of clay creatures, restorations of the dead, legal
abrogations, and a Qur'anic passage in which Jesus asks for helpers, the apostles
profess belief, and the Jews and God devise stratagems.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A cited Muslim writer tells of Jesus speaking while in Mary's womb and soon
after birth in response to Joseph's suspicions or questions.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The newborn child is reported to say that God brought him from the darkness
of the womb to the light of the world and that he will invite the children of
Israel to obey God.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The translator says similar traditions are preserved in a spurious Gospel
of the Infancy of Christ, where Jesus speaks in the cradle to his mother.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A note says some commentators identify the created bird as a bat, while others
suppose Jesus made several birds of different kinds.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: In an infancy tradition summarized by the translator, children make clay figures
of birds and beasts, and Jesus commands his figures to move, fly, stand on his
hands, eat, and drink.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The children report the event to their parents, who forbid them to play with
Jesus because they regard him as a sorcerer.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: A commentator notes that qualifying words are added so Jesus's miracles are
not understood as performed by his own power or as proving he was God.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: Jallalo'ddin is said to mention three people whom Christ restored to life
and who lived afterward and had children.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:9
text: Another account says Jesus raised Shem son of Noah from the grave; Shem thought
he had been called to judgment, came out half grey-headed, and then immediately
died again.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The commentators say Jesus abrogated certain Mosaic legal restrictions, and
that some later institutions of Jesus were abrogated by Mohammed.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:11
text: When Jesus perceives unbelief, he asks who will be his helpers toward God,
and the apostles answer that they will be the helpers of God and believers.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:12
text: The believers pray that they may be written down with those who bear witness
to Jesus.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:13
text: The Jews devise a stratagem against Jesus, and God devises a stratagem against
them.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Jesus / Christ
description: Central figure described as speaking before or soon after birth, animating
clay creatures, restoring dead persons to life, abrogating laws, asking for helpers,
and being the target of a stratagem.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Mary
description: Mother of Jesus, described as concealing her delivery and addressed
in the infancy tradition.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Joseph
description: Mary's cousin in the cited tradition, suspicious of her and later sent
by Zacharias to seek her.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Zacharias
description: Figure who sends Joseph to seek Mary in the cited tradition.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: children playing with Jesus
description: Children who make clay figures of birds and beasts and report Jesus's
actions to their parents.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: parents of the children
description: Parents who forbid their children to play with Jesus, regarding him
as a sorcerer.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Lazarus
description: One of the persons said by Jallalo'ddin to have been restored to life
by Christ.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: widow's son
description: One of the persons said by Jallalo'ddin to have been restored to life
by Christ.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: publican's daughter
description: One of the persons said by Jallalo'ddin to have been restored to life
by Christ, with the translator suggesting this may mean the ruler of the synagogue's
daughter.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Shem son of Noah
description: Figure said to be raised from the grave, to emerge half grey-headed,
and then to die again.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: apostles
description: Those who answer Jesus that they will be helpers of God and profess
belief.
role_refs:
- role:11
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: the Jews
description: Group said to devise a stratagem against Jesus.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: God
description: Divine figure described as bringing Jesus from the womb to the world,
sending revelation, authorizing miracles, and devising a stratagem against the
plotters.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: miraculous infant speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jesus is reported to speak in the womb, after birth, and in the cradle.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: miracle worker by divine permission
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jesus animates clay figures and restores the dead, while the commentary warns
against attributing the power to Jesus independently.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: legal abrogator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Commentators say Jesus abrogated some Mosaic restrictions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: caller of helpers
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Jesus asks who will be his helpers toward God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:5
label: mother of miraculous child
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Mary is the mother in the womb, birth, and cradle traditions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: suspicious questioner
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Joseph is said to suspect Mary and to expostulate with her.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:7
label: sender of seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Zacharias sends Joseph to seek Mary.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:8
label: child witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The children play with Jesus, make clay figures, and report the event.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: skeptical parents
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The parents forbid play with Jesus and call him a sorcerer.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:10
label: restored dead
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
basis: These figures are described as being restored or raised to life by Christ.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: helpers of God
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: The apostles answer that they will be helpers of God.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:12
label: believing witnesses
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: They profess belief and ask to be written down with those who bear witness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:13
label: plotters against Jesus
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: They are said to devise a stratagem against him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:14
label: divine sender and counter-plotter
assigned_to:
- fig:13
basis: God is said to bring Jesus forth, send revelation, authorize miracles, and
devise a stratagem against the plotters.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:8
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: dark womb and light world
literal_form: darkness of the womb; light of the world
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: cradle speech
literal_form: cradle from which Jesus speaks to his mother
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: animated clay birds and beasts
literal_form: clay figures of birds and beasts, including sparrows and possibly
a bat
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: grave opening for the raised dead
literal_form: Shem's grave from which he comes out
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: half-grey head
literal_form: Shem's head half grey after emerging from the grave
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: written witness register
literal_form: being written down with those who bear witness
associated_figures:
- fig:11
- fig:13
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Jesus speaks before or soon after birth
summary: A cited tradition says Jesus speaks in Mary's womb or soon after birth
to address Joseph and to announce that God has brought him from the womb to the
world and that he will call Israel to obedience.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Cradle speech in infancy tradition
summary: The translator relates a parallel infancy tradition in which Jesus speaks
from the cradle to his mother and identifies himself.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Clay creatures are animated
summary: In a childhood play scene, Jesus commands clay figures of birds and beasts
to move, fly, stand, eat, and drink; parents then forbid the children from playing
with him.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Dead persons restored to life
summary: Commentarial traditions list people restored to life by Christ, including
three who live afterward and Shem son of Noah, who rises briefly from the grave
and dies again.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:5
label: Legal restrictions abrogated
summary: Commentators say Jesus abrogated certain Mosaic restrictions concerning
foods and sabbath work, and compare this with later abrogations by Mohammed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:6
label: Apostles answer Jesus and God counters the plot
summary: Jesus asks who will help him toward God; the apostles profess belief and
ask to be counted among witnesses; the Jews devise a stratagem and God devises
one against them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: miraculous infant or cradle speech
taxonomy_refs:
- miraculous_child
basis: Jesus is described as speaking from the womb, immediately after birth, and
in a cradle tradition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The examples occur in translator notes and cited traditions within the
line range, not solely in the Qur'anic verse excerpt.
- id: motif:2
label: sacred or extraordinary birth announcement
taxonomy_refs:
- sacred_birth
basis: The newborn Jesus announces divine agency in his birth and future mission
to Israel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage emphasizes speech and mission more than the birth event itself.
- id: motif:3
label: animation of clay creatures
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Jesus commands clay figures of birds and beasts to move, fly, eat, and drink.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly names this motif.
- id: motif:4
label: raising the dead
taxonomy_refs:
- resurrection
basis: The passage lists persons restored to life by Christ, including Shem rising
from his grave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: Some restorations are from commentarial reports summarized by the translator.
- id: motif:5
label: divinely authorized miracle worker
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A note states that wording is added to prevent the miracles from being attributed
to Jesus's own power or deity.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a theological interpretation supplied in commentary.
- id: motif:6
label: chosen helpers who bear witness
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The apostles agree to be helpers of God, profess belief, and ask to be written
among witnesses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches the helper-and-witness
motif.
- id: motif:7
label: divine counter-stratagem against opponents
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The Jews devise a stratagem against Jesus, and God devises a stratagem against
them.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The verse names a divine counter-plot but does not narrate the resulting
judgment in this excerpt.
- id: motif:8
label: prophetic abrogation of earlier law
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Commentators say Jesus abrogated certain Mosaic legal restrictions, with
a later comparison to Mohammed's abrogation of some Christian institutions.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: This is a commentarial legal-theological motif rather than a narrative
scene.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself states that traditions of Jesus speaking in infancy resemble
or derive from eastern Christian traditions preserved in the spurious Gospel of
the Infancy of Christ.
claim_level: same_motif
target: spurious Gospel of the Infancy of Christ; eastern Christian infancy traditions
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The claim is made by the translator and depends on cited extra-Qur'anic
traditions; the passage does not establish historical transmission independently.
- id: claim:2
claim: The clay-bird animation episode is explicitly compared by the translator
to an infancy-gospel tradition in which Jesus animates clay figures during childhood
play.
claim_level: same_motif
target: spurious Gospel of the Infancy of Christ clay creatures episode
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is based on the translator's note and summary, not on
a full quoted parallel text.
- id: claim:3
claim: The passage compares legal abrogation by Jesus with later abrogation by Mohammed
as analogous religious-legal functions.
claim_level: same_function
target: Jesus and Mohammed as abrogators of prior religious institutions
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: This is a commentarial theological comparison, not a narrative or mythic
genealogy claim.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 11082-11093
quote_or_summary: A cited Muslim writer tells stories of Jesus speaking in Mary's
womb or soon after birth to Joseph, saying God brought him from the darkness of
the womb to the light of the world and that he would call Israel to obedience.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 11094-11101
quote_or_summary: The translator says these accounts seem taken from eastern Christian
traditions and cites the spurious Gospel of the Infancy of Christ, where Jesus
speaks in the cradle to his mother.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 11106-11109
quote_or_summary: A note says some identify the made bird as a bat, while others
suppose Jesus made several birds of different sorts.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 11110-11124
quote_or_summary: 'The translator summarizes an infancy tradition: Jesus at seven
plays with children making clay birds and beasts; at his command his figures walk,
leap, fly, stand on his hands, and eat and drink; the parents then forbid play
with him as a sorcerer.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 11125-11127
quote_or_summary: Commentators say added wording prevents readers from thinking
Jesus did the miracles by his own power or was God.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 11128-11136
quote_or_summary: Jallalo'ddin lists Lazarus, the widow's son, and the publican's
daughter as restored to life by Christ; another account adds Shem son of Noah,
who emerges from his grave half grey-headed and then dies again.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 11137-11141
quote_or_summary: Commentators say Jesus abrogated certain Mosaic restrictions on
food and sabbath work, and compare this with later abrogations by Mohammed.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: quote
locator: lines 11143-11145
quote_or_summary: Jesus asks, “Who will be my helpers towards GOD?” The apostles
answer that they will be helpers of God and believers, and they pray to be written
among those who bear witness.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 11146-11146
quote_or_summary: The Jews devise a stratagem against Jesus, and God devises a stratagem
against them; God is called the best deviser of stratagems.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/islamic/project-gutenberg/koran-sale.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The line range mixes Qur'anic verse, translator notes, and commentarial or
apocryphal parallels. Motif extraction is reliable for what the passage reports,
but sources and narrative levels should be reviewed.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Taxonomy references are limited to provided motif families and symbols.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:islamic-koran-sale-gutenberg__l11082-l11146
passage_sha256=8232cd89fb06e53187280952edf1a2b3ec7b82753936abd11c72a1b8eacb4397