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The Gospel of Thomas's 114 Sayings of Jesus
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In "The Gospel of Thomas: Jesus Said What?" in the July/August 2015 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole examines what the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas reveal about the early Christian globe in which they were written. Beneath, read the 114 sayings of Jesus equally translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James Grand. Robinson and republished from The Gnostic Lodge Library.—Ed.
The Gospel of Thomas
Translated past Stephen J. Patterson and James One thousand. Robinson *
These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke. And Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down.
(1) And he said: "Whoever finds the meaning of these words will not taste decease."
(2) Jesus says:
(1) "The one who seeks should non stop seeking until he finds.
(two) And when he finds, he volition exist dismayed.
(3) And when he is dismayed, he volition be astonished.
(4) And he will exist king over the All."
(iii) Jesus says:
(one) "If those who lead you say to you: 'Expect, the kingdom is in the heaven!' then the birds of the sky volition precede you.
(2) If they say to you: 'It is in the sea,' then the fishes will precede you.
(3) Rather, the kingdom is inside of you and outside of you."
(iv) "When you come to know yourselves, then yous volition be known, and you will realize that you are the children of the living Father.
(v) But if you do not come to know yourselves, then you exist in poverty, and you are poverty."
(4) Jesus says:
(1) "The person former in his days volition not hesitate to ask a child seven days one-time about the place of life, and he will live.
(2) For many who are first will become last, (3) and they will get a single 1."
(v) Jesus says:
(1) "Come to know what is in front of y'all, and that which is hidden from yous volition go articulate to y'all.
(2) For there is cipher subconscious that volition not become manifest."
(6)
(one) His disciples questioned him, (and) they said to him: "Do yous want usa to fast? And how should nosotros pray and requite alms? And what diet should we observe?"
(ii) Jesus says: "Exercise not lie. (3) And practice non do what you lot detest.
(4) For everything is disclosed in view of <the truth>.
(5) For there is nothing hidden that will non go revealed.
(half-dozen) And there is nothing covered that volition remain undisclosed."
(7) Jesus says:
(one) "Blessed is the lion that a person will consume and the panthera leo will go human.
(2) And anathema is the person whom a lion volition eat and the lion will become human."
(8)
(1) And he says: "The human being is similar a sensible fisherman who bandage his internet into the ocean and drew it up from the sea filled with piddling fish.
(2) Among them the sensible fisherman found a large, fine fish.
(3) He threw all the little fish back into the sea, (and) he chose the large fish effortlessly.
(four) Whoever has ears to hear should hear."
(9) Jesus says:
(i) "Expect, a sower went out. He filled his hands (with seeds), (and) he scattered (them).
(2) Some vicious on the path, and the birds came and pecked them upwards.
(iii) Others cruel on the rock, and did not accept root in the soil, and they did not put forth ears.
(iv) And others savage among the thorns, they high-strung the seeds, and worms ate them.
(5) And others barbarous on good soil, and it produced good fruit. It yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure out."
(10) Jesus says:
"I have cast fire upon the world, and run across, I am guarding information technology until it blazes."
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(xi) Jesus says:
(1) "This sky will laissez passer abroad, and the (sky) above information technology volition pass away.
(2) And the expressionless are not alive, and the living volition not dice.
(3) In the days when you consumed what was dead, you made information technology live. When you are in the lite, what volition you lot practise?
(4) On the twenty-four hour period when y'all were one, you became two. Just when you become two, what will y'all do?"
(12)
(1) The disciples said to Jesus: "We know that you will depart from us. Who (then) volition rule over us?"
(2) Jesus said to them: "No matter where y'all came from, y'all should get to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
(xiii)
(1) Jesus said to his disciples: "Compare me, and tell me whom I am like."
(2) Simon Peter said to him: "You are like a but messenger."
(3) Matthew said to him: "You are like an (especially) wise philosopher."
(4) Thomas said to him: "Teacher, my oral fissure cannot deport at all to say whom you are like."
(five) Jesus said: "I am not your teacher. For yous have drunk, y'all accept become intoxicated at the bubbling bound that I have measured out."
(6) And he took him, (and) withdrew, (and) he said 3 words to him.
(7) But when Thomas came back to his companions, they asked him: "What did Jesus say to you?"
(8) Thomas said to them: "If I tell you one of the words he said to me, yous will option upward stones and throw them at me, and burn down volition come out of the stones (and) burn you upwards."
(fourteen) Jesus said to them:
(ane)"If you fast, y'all will bring forth sin for yourselves.
(2) And if you pray, you will be condemned.
(3) And if you give alms, y'all volition practice impairment to your spirits.
(iv) And if y'all get into whatever land and wander from place to place, (and) if they take you lot in,
(then) eat what they will set up before you. Heal the sick among them!
(5) For what goes into your mouth will not defile you. Rather, what comes out of your mouth volition defile you."
(15) Jesus says:
"When y'all run into 1 who was not born of woman, autumn on your face (and) worship him. That one is your Father."
(xvi) Jesus says:
(1) "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world.
(2) But they do non know that I have come to cast dissension upon the globe: fire, sword, war.
(3) For in that location will exist five in one house: at that place will be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father.
(4) And they volition stand every bit solitary ones."
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(17) Jesus says:
"I volition give y'all what no center has seen, and what no ear has heard, and what no hand has touched, and what has not occurred to the homo mind."
(18)
(i) The disciples said to Jesus: "Tell u.s. how our terminate volition be."
(two) Jesus said: "Have you lot already discovered the beginning that you lot are now asking nigh the end? For where the beginning is, there the end will be also.
(3) Blest is he who volition stand up at the showtime. And he will know the end, and he volition non sense of taste death."
(xix) Jesus says:
(1)"Blessed is he who was, before he came into beingness.
(2) If yous become disciples of mine (and) mind to my words, these stones will serve you.
(3) For you accept five trees in Paradise that practice not alter during summer (and) wintertime, and their leaves do non autumn.
(4) Whoever comes to know them will not taste death."
(xx)
(ane) The disciples said to Jesus: "Tell us whom the kingdom of heaven is like!"
(2) He said to them: "It is like a mustard seed.
(3) <It> is the smallest of all seeds.
(4) Just when it falls on cultivated soil, information technology produces a large branch (and) becomes shelter for the birds of the sky."
(21)
(one) Mary said to Jesus: "Whom are your disciples like?"
(2) He said: "They are like servants who are entrusted with a field that is non theirs.
(3) When the owners of the field arrive, they will say: 'Allow us have our field.'
(4) (Only) they are naked in their presence and so as to let them have it, (and thus) to give them their field."
(5) "That is why I say: When the master of the house learns that the thief is nearly to come, he will exist on baby-sit before he comes (and) will not allow him intermission into his house, his domain, to bear away his possessions.
(6) (But) you, be on baby-sit against the world!
(7) Gird your loins with great strength, then that the robbers volition not find a mode to get to you."
(eight) "For the necessities for which yous await (with longing) volition be found.
(9) There ought to be a wise person among yous!
(10) When the fruit was ripe, he came quickly with his sickle in his paw, (and) he harvested information technology.
(xi) Whoever has ears to hear should hear."
(22)
(1) Jesus saw infants being suckled.
(2) He said to his disciples: "These niggling ones being suckled are similar those who enter the kingdom."
(iii) They said to him: "So will we enter the kingdom as piddling ones?"
(4) Jesus said to them: "When you lot brand the two into i, and when you make the inside like the outside and the exterior like the within and the in a higher place like the below —
(5) that is, to brand the male person and the female into a single one, so that the male will not exist male person and the female will not be female person —
(6) and when you brand eyes instead of an eye and a manus instead of a mitt and a foot instead of a foot, an prototype instead of an image, (7) and then you will enter [the kingdom]."
(23) Jesus says:
(one) "I will choose you lot, one from a thousand and two from x thousand.
(ii) And they volition stand every bit a single one."
(24)
(1) His disciples said: "Testify us the place where you are, because it is necessary for us to seek it.
(2) He said to them: "Whoever has ears should hear!
(iii) Light exists inside a person of lite, and he shines on the whole world. If he does not polish, at that place is darkness."
(25) Jesus says:
(1) "Love your brother like your life!
(2) Protect him similar the apple of your heart!"
(26) Jesus says:
(i) "Y'all meet the splinter that is in your brother'due south eye, but you do non encounter the beam that is in your (own) center.
(ii) When yous remove the beam from your (own) eye, so yous will encounter clearly (enough) to remove the splinter from your brother's eye."
(27)
(1) "If y'all do not abstain from the world, you volition not detect the kingdom.
(2) If you exercise not make the Sabbath into a Sabbath, you will not see the Male parent."
(28) Jesus says:
(ane) "I stood in the heart of the earth, and in flesh I appeared to them.
(2) I establish all of them drunk. None of them did I notice thirsty.
(3) And my soul ached for the children of humanity, considering they are blind in their heart, and they cannot see; for they came into the earth empty, (and) they also seek to depart from the world empty.
(4) But now they are drunk. (Just) when they shake off their wine, so they volition change their mind."
(29) Jesus says:
(1) "If the mankind came into existence considering of the spirit, it is a wonder.
(2) Merely if the spirit (came into existence) because of the body, information technology is a wonder of wonders.
(iii) Still I curiosity at how this great wealth has taken up residence in this poverty."
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(30) Jesus says:
(1) "Where in that location are three gods, they are gods.
(two) Where there are two or one, I am with him."
(31) Jesus says:
(1) "No prophet is accepted in his (own) village.
(ii) A doc does not heal those who know him."
(32) Jesus says:
"A city built upon a loftier mountain (and) fortified cannot fall, nor can it exist hidden."
(33) Jesus says:
(1) "What you will hear with your ear {with the other ear} proclaim from your rooftops.
(2) For no 1 lights a lamp (and) puts information technology under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden identify.
(3) Rather, he puts it on a lampstand, and so that everyone who comes in and goes out volition see its light."
(34) Jesus says:
"If a blind (person) leads a blind (person), both will fall into a pit."
(35) Jesus says:
(1) "It is not possible for someone to enter the house of a stiff (person) (and) take it by strength unless he binds his easily.
(ii) Then he will loot his house."
(36) Jesus says:
"Do not worry from morning time to evening and from evening to morning time about what you will wear."
(37)
(one) His disciples said: "When volition you appear to us, and when will nosotros see yous?"
(2) Jesus said: "When you undress without beingness ashamed and take your clothes (and) put them under your feet like piffling children (and) trample on them,
(3) then [you] volition see the son of the Living One, and you will not exist afraid."
(38) Jesus says:
(1) "Many times have you desired to hear these words, these that I am speaking to you lot, and you have no one else from whom to hear them.
(2) In that location will be days when you will seek me (and) you will not find me."
(39) Jesus says:
(1) "The Pharisees and the scribes have received the keys of noesis, (but) they have subconscious them.
(two) Neither accept they entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to.
(3) You lot, however, be as shrewd every bit serpents and every bit innocent as doves!"
(forty) Jesus says:
(1) "A grapevine was planted outside (the vineyard) of the Father.
(ii) And since it is not supported, it will be pulled up past its roots (and) volition perish."
(41) Jesus says:
(1) "Whoever has (something) in his hand, (something more) will be given to him.
(2) And whoever has nothing, fifty-fifty the picayune he has volition be taken from him."
(42) Jesus says:
"Become passers-by."
(43)
(ane) His disciples said to him: "Who are y'all to say this to us?"
(2) "Do you not realized from what I say to you who I am?
(3) But y'all have get like the Jews! They love the tree, (but) they hate its fruit. Or they love the fruit, (just) they detest the tree."
(44) Jesus says:
(1) "Whoever blasphemes confronting the Begetter, information technology will be forgiven him.
(ii) And whoever blasphemes against the Son, information technology will exist forgiven him.
(3) Simply whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it volition non be forgiven him, neither on earth nor in heaven."
(45) Jesus says:
(one) "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs picked from thistles, for they exercise non produce fruit.
(2) A skilful person brings forth good from his treasure.
(3) A bad person brings (forth) evil from the bad treasure that is in his heart, and (in fact) he speaks evil.
(4) For out of the affluence of the center he brings along evil."
(46) Jesus says:
(ane) "From Adam to John the Baptist, among those born of women there is no one who surpasses John the Baptist then that his (i.east., John's) eyes demand non exist downcast."
(two) "But I have also said: Whoever among y'all becomes little volition know the kingdom, and will surpass John."
(47) Jesus says:
(one) "It is impossible for a person to mount 2 horses and to stretch two bows.
(two) And information technology is incommunicable for a servant to serve 2 masters. Else he volition accolade the one and insult the other.
(3) No person drinks old wine and immediately desires to drink new vino.
(4) And new wine is not put into former wineskins, so that they do not burst; nor is onetime wine put into (a) new wineskin, then that it does non spoil it.
(five) An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, because a tear will result."
(48) Jesus says:
"If two make peace with one some other in ane and the same business firm, (then) they volition say to the mountain: 'Move away,' and it will motility abroad."
(49) Jesus says:
(i) "Blessed are the lonely ones, the elect. For you will find the kingdom.
(2) For you come from it (and) will return to it."
(50) Jesus says:
(i) "If they say to you: 'Where do yous come up from?' (and so) say to them: 'Nosotros have come from the calorie-free, the place where the light has come into beingness by itself, has established [itself] and has appeared in their paradigm.'
(2) If they say to you: 'Is it you?' (then) say: 'We are his children, and we are the elect of the living Father.'
(3) If they ask you: 'What is the sign of your Male parent amongst you lot?' (then) say to them: 'Information technology is movement and repose.'"
The Nag Hammadi codices comprise more than 50 early Christian texts, including the Gospel of Thomas. The forgotten gospel preserves sayings of Jesus that were non included in the canonical Gospels. Photo: Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont, California
(51)
(1) His disciples said to him: "When will the <resurrection> of the dead have place, and when will the new world come?"
(2) He said to them: "That (resurrection) which you are awaiting has (already) come, but you do not recognize it."
(52)
(ane) His disciples said to him: "Twenty-four prophets accept spoken in Israel, and all (of them) have spoken through y'all."
(2) He said to them: "You lot have pushed away the living (1) from yourselves, and you accept begun to speak of those who are expressionless."
(53)
(ane) His disciples said to him: "Is circumcision beneficial, or non?"
(2) He said to them: "If it were beneficial, their begetter would beget them circumcised from their mother.
(3) But the true circumcision in the spirit has prevailed over everything."
(54) Jesus says:
"Blessed are the poor. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to y'all."
(55) Jesus says:
(1) "Whoever does not hate his father and his female parent cannot become a disciple of mine.
(two) And whoever does not hate his brothers and his sisters (and) will not have up his cross equally I practise, will not be worthy of me."
(56) Jesus says:
"Whoever has come to know the world has found a corpse.
And whoever has establish (this) corpse, of him the world is not worthy."
(57) Jesus says:
(1) "The kingdom of the Male parent is similar a person who had (good) seed.
(2) His enemy came by night. He sowed darnel among the good seed.
(3) The person did not permit (the servants) to pull up the darnel.
He said to them: 'Lest you go to pull up the darnel (and and then) pull up the wheat along with it.'
(4) For on the day of the harvest the darnel will be apparent and it volition exist pulled upwards (and) burned."
(58) Jesus says:
"Blest is the person who has struggled. He has institute life."
(59) Jesus says:
"Wait for the Living One while you are alive, so that you will non dice (and) then seek to encounter him. And y'all volition non exist able to meet (him)."
(60)
(i) <He saw> a Samaritan who was trying to steal a lamb while he was on his way to Judea.
(two) He said to his disciples: "That (person) is stalking the lamb."
(3) They said to him: "So that he may kill it (and) swallow information technology."
(4) He said to them: "As long as it is live he will not eat information technology, but (only) when he has killed it (and) information technology has become a corpse."
(5) They said to him: "Otherwise he cannot practice it."
(6) He said to them: "You, also, look for a place for your repose so that you lot may not become a corpse (and) get eaten."
(61)
(one) Jesus said: "2 will remainder on a bed. The i will die, the other volition live."
(ii) Salome said: "(So) who are you, man? You have gotten a place on my burrow as a <stranger> and yous have eaten from my table."
(3) Jesus said to her: "I am he who comes from the 1 who is (always) the same. I was given some of that which is my Male parent's."
(iv) "I am your disciple!"
(5) Therefore I say: If someone becomes < like > (God), he will become full of light.
But if he becomes i, separated (from God), he will become full of darkness.
(62) Jesus says:
(1) "I tell my mysteries to those who [are worthy] of [my] mysteries."
(2) "Whatsoever yous right mitt does, your left hand should not know what information technology is doing."
(63) Jesus says:
(1) "There was a rich person who had many possessions.
(2) He said: 'I volition use my possessions so that I might sow, reap, establish,
(and) fill my storehouses with fruit then that I will non lack anything.'
(iii) This was what he was thinking in his center. And in that dark he died.
(4) Whoever has ears should hear."
(64) Jesus says:
(one) "A person had guests. And when he had prepared the dinner, he sent his servant, so that he might invite the guests.
(2) He came to the first (and) said to him: 'My primary invites y'all.'
(3) He said: 'I accept bills for some merchants. They are coming to me this evening. I volition go (and) give instructions to them. Alibi me from the dinner.'
(4) He came to another (and) said to him: 'My main has invited you.'
(5) He said to him: 'I have bought a business firm, and I have been called (away) for a day. I volition not have time.'
(half-dozen) He went to another (and) said to him: 'My master invites you lot.'
(7) He said to him: 'My friend is going to marry, and I am the one who is going to prepare the meal. I volition not exist able to come. Excuse me from the dinner.'
(8) He came upward to another (and) said to him: 'My master invites you.'
(ix) He said to him: 'I have bought a village. Since I am going to collect the hire, I will not be able to come. Excuse me.'
(10) The servant went away. He said to his master: 'Those whom you invited to the dinner have asked to be excused.'
(11) The chief said to his retainer: 'Become out on the roads. Bring (back) whomever you observe, so that they might have dinner.'
(12) Dealers and merchants (volition) non enter the places of my Begetter."
(65) He said:
(ane) "A [usurer] owned a vineyard. He gave information technology to some farmers and so that they would piece of work it (and) he might receive its fruit from them.
(2) He sent his servant so that the farmers might give him the fruit of the vineyard.
(three) They seized his servant, beat out him, (and) well-nigh killed him. The servant went (back and) told his master.
(4) His primary said: 'Possibly <they> did not recognize <him>.'
(five) He sent some other servant, (and) the farmers beat that other one also.
(6) So the principal sent his son (and) said: 'Perhaps they will show respect for my son.'
(seven) (But) those farmers, since they knew that he was the heir of the vineyard, seized him (and) killed him.
(8) Whoever has ears should hear."
(66) Jesus says:
"Prove me the stone that the builders have rejected. Information technology is the cornerstone."
(67) Jesus says:
"Whoever knows all, if he is defective one matter, he is (already) defective everything."
(68) Jesus says:
(1) "Blessed are you when(e'er) they hate you (and) persecute you.
(2) But they (themselves) will detect no place there where they have persecuted you."
(69) Jesus says:
(1) "Blessed are those who have been persecuted in their centre.
They are the ones who have truly come to know the Begetter."
(2) "Blest are those who endure from hunger so that the belly of the one who wishes (it) will be satisfied."
(70) Jesus says:
(1) "If you bring it into being inside you lot, (and then) that which you have will save you.
(2) If you do not have information technology within you, (then) that which you do not have within y'all [volition] kill you."
(71) Jesus says:
"I will [destroy this] house, and no one volition be able to build it [again]."
(72)
(1) A [person said] to him: "Tell my brothers that they take to divide my father's possessions with me."
(ii) He said to him: "Man, who has fabricated me a divider?"
(3) He turned to his disciples (and) said to them: "I am non a divider, am I?"
(73) Jesus says:
(1) "The harvest is plentiful, only there are few workers.
(2) Just beg the Lord that he may send workers into the harvest."
(74) He said:
"Lord, at that place are many effectually the well, only there is nothing in the <well>."
(75) Jesus says:
"Many are standing before the door, only it is the solitary ones who will enter the wedding hall."
(76) Jesus says:
(ane) "The kingdom of the Male parent is like a merchant who had trade and establish a pearl.
(2) That merchant is prudent. He sold the goods (and) bought for himself the pearl alone.
(iii) You lot likewise look for his treasure, which does not perish, (and) which stays where no moth tin can reach information technology to eat information technology, and no worm destroys it."
(77) Jesus says:
(1) "I am the light that is over all. I am the All. The All came along out of me. And to me the All has come."
(ii) "Dissever a piece of forest — I am there.
(3) Lift the stone, and y'all will find me in that location."
(78) Jesus says:
(1) "Why did you go out to the countryside? To see a reed shaken past the wind,
(two) and to see a person dressed in soft clothing [like your] kings and your great persons?
(3) They are dressed in soft article of clothing and will not be able to recognize the truth."
(79)
(1) A woman in the crowd said to him: "Hail to the womb that carried you and to the breasts that fed you."
(2) He said to [her]: "Hail to those who take heard the word of the Father (and) have truly kept it.
(three) For in that location volition exist days when you will say: 'Hail to the womb that has not conceived and to the breasts that accept not given milk.'"
(80) Jesus says:
(1) "Whoever has come to know the globe has constitute the (dead) torso.
(two) Only whoever has constitute the (expressionless) body, of him the world is non worthy."
(81) Jesus says:
(1) "Whoever has go rich should exist king.
(two) And the one who has power should renounce (it)."
(82) Jesus says:
(1) "The person who is near me is nigh the fire.
(2) And the person who is far from me is far from the kingdom."
(83) Jesus says:
(ane) "The images are visible to humanity, simply the light within them is hidden in the image.
(2) {} The light of the Begetter volition reveal itself, just his image is hidden by his low-cal."
(84) Jesus says:
(i) "When you come across your likeness you are full of joy.
(2) Just when you lot come across your likenesses that came into beingness before yous — they neither die nor become manifest — how much will you bear?"
(85) Jesus says:
(ane) "Adam came from a great power and a great wealth. Simply he did not become worthy of you.
(two) For if he had been worthy, (and then) [he would] not [have tasted] death."
(86) Jesus says:
(1) "[Foxes have] their holes and birds accept their nest.
(2) But the son of homo has no place to lay his head down (and) to residual."
(87) Jesus says:
(1) "Wretched is the body that depends on a body.
(ii) And wretched is the soul that depends on these 2."
(88) Jesus says:
(1) "The messengers and the prophets are coming to you, and they will requite you what belongs to you.
(2) And you, in turn, give to them what y'all have in your hands (and) say to yourselves: 'When will they come (and) take what belongs to them?'"
(89) Jesus says:
(1) "Why do you wash the outside of the loving cup?
(ii) Do you not understand that the one who created the within is as well the one who created the outside?"
(90) Jesus says:
(one) "Come up to me, for my yoke is gentle and my lordship is mild.
(2) And you volition find placidity for yourselves."
(91)
(1) They said to him: "Tell u.s.a. who y'all are so that nosotros may believe in y'all."
(two) He said to them: "You examine the face of sky and globe, but the i who is before you, you accept not recognized, and you exercise not know how to test this opportunity."
(92) Jesus says:
(ane) "Seek and you will notice.
(2) But the things y'all asked me most in past times, and what I did not tell yous in that day, now I am willing to tell you, but y'all do not seek them."
(93)
(1) "Do not give what is holy to the dogs, lest they throw it upon the dunghill.
(ii) Exercise non throw pearls to swine, lest they turn <them> into [mud]."
(94) Jesus [says]:
(1) "The i who seeks will find.
(ii) [The one who knocks], to that one will it be opened."
(95) [Jesus says:]
(1) "If y'all have money, do not lend (it) out at interest.
(2) Rather, give [information technology] to the one from whom y'all volition non get it (back)."
(96) Jesus [says]:
(1) "The kingdom of the Father is like [a] woman.
(2) She took a little fleck of yeast. [She] hid information technology in dough (and) fabricated it into huge loaves of breadstuff.
(three) Whoever has ears should hear."
(97) Jesus says:
(1) "The kingdom of the [Begetter] is like a woman who is carrying a [jar] filled with flour.
(two) While she was walking on [the] fashion, very distant (from home), the handle of the jar bankrupt (and) the flour leaked out [on] the path.
(three) (But) she did non know (it); she had not noticed a problem.
(4) When she reached her house, she put the jar downwards on the floor (and) plant it empty."
(98) Jesus says:
(1) "The kingdom of the Father is like a person who wanted to impale a powerful person.
(2) He drew the sword in his business firm (and) stabbed it into the wall to test whether his hand would exist potent (enough).
(3) Then he killed the powerful one."
(99)
(ane) The disciples said to him: "Your brothers and your female parent are standing outside."
(ii) He said to them: "Those hither, who exercise the will of my Father, they are my brothers and my mother.
(3) They are the ones who will enter the kingdom of my Male parent."
(100)
(1) They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him: "Caesar's people demand taxes from us."
(2) He said to them: "Give Caesar (the things) that are Caesar's.
(3) Give God (the things) that are God'south.
(four) And what is mine give me."
(101)
(i) "Whoever does not hate his [begetter] and his mother as I do will not exist able to be a [disciple] of mine.
(2) And whoever does [not] love his [male parent and] his mother as I exercise volition non be able to be a [disciple] of mine.
(3) For my mother […], but my truthful [female parent] gave me life."
(102) Jesus says:
"Woe to them, the Pharisees, for they are similar a dog sleeping in a cattle trough, for it neither eats nor [lets] the cattle consume."
(103) Jesus says:
"Blessed is the person who knows at which point (of the business firm) the robbers are going to enter, and then that [he] may arise to assemble together his [domain] and gird his loins before they enter."
(104)
(1) They said to [Jesus]: "Come, let united states pray and fast today!"
(2) Jesus said: "What sin is it that I have committed, or wherein accept I been overcome?
(3) Merely when the bridegroom comes out of the wedding chamber, then allow (u.s.a.) fast and pray."
(105) Jesus says:
"Whoever will come up to know father and female parent, he will exist called son of a whore."
(106) Jesus says:
(1) "When you make the two into 1, you will become sons of man.
(2) And when you say 'Mountain, move away,' it volition motion away."
(107) Jesus says:
(ane) "The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep.
(2) 1 of them went off-target, the largest. He left the xc-ix, (and) he sought the one until he found it.
(3) Later on he had toiled, he said to the sheep: 'I love you more than the 90-nine.'"
(108) Jesus says:
(1) "Whoever will drink from my rima oris will become like me.
(2) I myself will become he,
(3) and what is hidden volition be revealed to him."
(109) Jesus says:
(one) "The kingdom is like a person who has a subconscious treasure in his field, (of which) he knows null.
(2) And [afterward] he had died, he left information technology to his [son]. (But) the son did not know (about it either).
He took over that field (and) sold [it].
(three) And the one who had bought information technology came, and while he was ploughing [he institute] the treasure.
He began to lend coin at involvement to whom he wished."
(110) Jesus says:
"The one who has found the world (and) has go wealthy should renounce the world."
(111) Jesus says:
(one) "The heavens will scroll up before you lot, and the globe.
(2) And whoever is living from the living i will not see decease."
(3) Does not Jesus say: "Whoever has institute himself, of him the globe is not worthy"?
(112) Jesus says:
(1) "Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul.
(ii) Woe to the soul that depends on the mankind."
(113)
(i) His disciples said to him: "The kingdom — on what mean solar day will information technology come?"
(2) "It will not come by watching (and waiting for) information technology.
(three) They volition not say: 'Look, hither!' or 'Wait, there!'
(4) Rather, the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and people do non see information technology."
(114)
(1) Simon Peter said to them: "Let Mary go away from us, for women are not worthy of life."
(2) Jesus said: "Look, I will describe her in then as to make her male person, then that she as well may go a living male person spirit, like to y'all."
(three) (Merely I say to you lot): "Every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of sky."
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* Adapted from Stephen J Patterson, James M Robinson and Hans-Gebhard Bethge, The Fifth Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1998), pp. vii–32.
This Bible History Daily characteristic was originally published on June 29, 2015.
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