The present work draws a coherent and orderly account of all the data collected from the apocryphal Gospels, a literature that has influenced throughout the centuries in liturgy, art, literature despite the severe prohibitions of some Fathers of the Church. The "lives" of Jesus, according to the extracanonical gospels, are counted from the first centuries of Christianity. Some of the writings -which are the exclusive basis of this study- go back to the second century of our era and they handle traditions that in some aspect competed in their day with the remaining books of the New Testament. The present work traces a coherent and ordered account of all the data collected from the apocryphal gospels. Antonio Piñero intends to recover this other Jesus from oblivion, as imagined by the various authors or groups whose "gospels" were not accepted in the canon or list of New Testament books. For the history of theology, culture and religious movements, the writings treated here represent an inestimable source of knowledge on the evolution of theology in areas not rigidly controlled by the official hierarchy, as well as the discernment of spontaneous ones spiritual concerns of the Christian people.