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The word apocryphal It is used with the mission of realizing that something or someone turns out to be false, feigned or an assumption without verification or veracity. The letter found with my grandmother's signature there is no doubt that it is apocryphal.

Likewise and with the same sense, the term is used to designate the text or written that it is neither from the time it claims to be, nor from the authorship of who claims to be it. The contract what did you sign is apocryphal.

And the other of the frequent uses of the term designates the book that has not been included in the canon of the bible, although it is attributed to a Author sacred, such is the case of the apocryphal gospels.

The apocryphal or extra-canonical gospels, as they are also known, are those that appeared during the early days of Christianity dealing with the figure of Jesus, but were not included in the Bible and were not accepted by the Catholic Church, when the time came, nor by the rest of the Christian churches, that is, they show characteristics and spread names that in effect make them appear as canonical books, although, having no official recognition, they passed to posterity as apocryphal gospels.

It should be noted that stories proliferate in these writings where the fantasy command and the sobriety that the canonical gospels do present is absent, for example, it shows Jesus as an unstoppable miracle worker and one of the most extravagant, by the way.

The origin of most of these apocryphal accounts is found in gnostic communities and they even have the particularity of presenting hidden words that are not open and clear to the understanding general, probably to mark their point of difference and inflection with respect to the originals.

Among the most prominent of this type are: Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Judas, Apocryphal Gospel of John, Arabic Gospel of the childhood, among others.