Although Jesus tried to explain that the boy was being careless and fell, they would not believe him.
"Then Jesus himself leaped down from the roof and stood by the body of the child and shouted in a loud voice: "Zeno!" - that was his name - "Get up and tell me: Did I push you?" He got up immediately and said, "No, Lord, you didn't push me, you raised me up"" (Infancy Thomas, 9:4-5).
Although in both of the Gospels, Jesus preformed miracles to help others, he also used his powers for harmful purposes. In the Gospel of Mark, while Jesus crossing through Jerusalem, he spotted a fig tree. As he walked towards it in hopes of finding some fruit to eat, Jesus discovered that the tree bared none. In anger, he retorted, "May no one so much as taste your fruit again!" (Mark, 11:14) and the cursed tree withered up and died. In the Infancy Gospel, when Jesus was walking through the village, a boy ran into and bumped him. Jesus became angry, told the boy that, "You won't continue your journey" (Thomas, 4), and right then, the boy died. In both circumstances, the people who witnessed Jesus" vulgar display of power were both fearful and angry. Jesus" actions in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas can be accounted for because he was so young, and did not know the extent of his powers. However, in the Gospel of Mark, for Jesus to kill a tree that bared no fruit seems more like temper issues, then something that needed to be done. Both instances in the two text show that not only can Jesus bless people, but he can curse them as well.
Finally, the last similarity between the two texts is Jesus" tendency of breaking the rules, particularly on the Sabbath. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus and his disciples were walking through the grain fields, and began to strip heads of grain. The Pharisees saw this and demanded why such work was being done on the Sabbath. Jesus replied:.
"The Sabbath day was created for Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eve for the Sabbath day.