Given the texts as described (I’m not otherwise familiar with them) the explanation that immediately occurs to me is that the early texts don’t mention it because it never happened, and that the Gemara mentions it because the miracle story already existed by that time, having developed in the oral tradition. As stories do. No-one needs to have simply invented the entire thing from whole cloth.
Given the texts as described (I’m not otherwise familiar with them) the explanation that immediately occurs to me is that the early texts don’t mention it because it never happened, and that the Gemara mentions it because the miracle story already existed by that time, having developed in the oral tradition. As stories do. No-one needs to have simply invented the entire thing from whole cloth.