Jacob, called Panther, married to ?
Offspring:
Mary, married to Joseph
Offspring:
Jesus
Cleophas
It shows that in the fourth century the Jewish stories of Panthera had made such an impression on the Christians, that his name was forced into the pedigree of Jesus.
Had any of the stories found in the Toledoth Jeschu existed in the second century, we should certainly have found them in the book of Celsus.
Origen taunts the Jew with knowing nothing of Christ but what he had found out from the Gospels. He would not have uttered that taunt had any anti-Christian apocryphal biographies of Christ existed in his day. The Talmud, indeed, has the tale of Christ having studied magic in Egypt. Whence this legend, as well as that of Panthera, came, we shall see presently.