The Gospel of Thomas
A hundred and fourteen sayings attributed to the living Jesus and set down with nothing around them, no birth, no miracles, no trial and no cross, opening with the promise that whoever finds the meaning of these words will not taste death. Some are close variants of sayings also in Matthew and Luke, the sower and the mustard seed among them; others turn the hearer inward, insisting that the kingdom is spread out upon the earth and men do not see it, and that what you bring forth from within will save you and what you fail to bring forth will destroy you. Known first in Greek scraps from Oxyrhynchus and then complete in the Coptic codices dug up at Nag Hammadi in 1945, it reopened the scholarly question of how the sayings of Jesus circulated before anyone wrote a narrative around them.
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- shares sources with ↑ The Gospels
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