The rejected texts are more interesting for what their rejection reveals than for what they say. Most were not voted down at a council; they simply failed to be read in churches, which was the practical test. The Gospel of Thomas, a sayings collection found at Nag Hammadi in 1945, contains material with genuine claim to be early and other material that is plainly Gnostic. The Gospel of Mary gives Mary Magdalene teaching the male disciples and Peter objecting. The Gospel of Judas, published in 2006, recasts the betrayal as an instruction. The infancy gospels are the strangest: the child Jesus of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas strikes a boy dead for bumping into him. The criteria the church actually used were roughly apostolic origin, wide use, and consistency with what was already taught, and the third one is circular in a way the honest accounts admit. What can be said is that the process was slower, messier and less centralised than either the pious version or the conspiracy version suggests.