See "The Other Bible"
edited by Willis Barnstone (Harper & Row), pgs 299-307 or "The
Nag Hammadi Library" edited by James Robinson (Harper Collins),
pg 124-138:
The Gospel of Thomas
(Gnostic) - scholars say these are the direct words of Jesus, the living God.
Fragments
from Paragraph Excerpts
These
are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas
wrote down.
#3 - When you come
to know yourselves, then you will become known, ...
*
But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are
that poverty.
#6 - Do not tell
lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain
in the sight of Heaven.
#9 -
"Now, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered them.
... others fell on the good soil and it produced good fruit: ..."
#12
- Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous.
#14
- ... heal the sick among them.
#21
- ... be on your guard against the world. Arm yourselves with great strength lest
the robbers find a way to come to you, for the difficulty which you expect will
surely materialize. Let there be among you a man of understanding.
#22
- ... when you make the male and the female one and the same, ...
#25
- Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye.
#26
- When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to cast
the mote from your brother's eye.
#31
- No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know
him.
#39 - You, however, be
as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.
#41
- Whoever has something in his hand will receive more, and whoever has nothing
will be deprived of even the little he has.
#44
- ... whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either on
earth or in heaven.
#45 - Jesus
said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered from thistles,
for they do not produce fruit. A good man brings forth good from his storehouse;
an evil man brings forth evil things from his evil storehouse, which is in his
heart, and says evil things. For out of the abundance of the heart he brings forth
evil things."
#47 - ...
it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters; otherwise, he will honor
the one and treat the other contemptuously.
#48
- Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they
will say to the mountain, 'Move away,' and it will move away."
#51
- ... when will the new world come?"
He
said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not
recognize it."
#54 - Jesus
said, "Blessed are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven."
#56
- Jesus said, "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a
corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world."
#58
- Jesus said, "Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life."
#61
- "... if he is undivided, he will be filled with light, but if he is divided,
he will be filled with darkness."
#63
- Let him who has ears hear.
#64 - Businessmen and merchants will not enter the Places of my Father.
#67
- Jesus said, "Whoever believes that the All itself is deficient is himself
completely deficient."
#69
- Jesus said, "Blessed are they who have been persecuted within themselves.
It is they who have truly come to know the Father. Blessed are the hungry, for
the belly of him who desires will be filled."
#70
- Jesus said, "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from
yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do not
have it within you."
#78
- Upon them are the fine garments, and they are unable to discern the truth."
#86
- Jesus said, "The foxes have their holes and the birds have their nests,
but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head and rest."
#92
- Jesus said, "Seek and you will find."
#93
- "Do not throw the pearls to swine, lest they grind it to bits."
#94
- Jesus said, "He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in."
#103
- Jesus said, "Fortunate is the man who knows where the brigands will enter,
so that he may get up, muster his domain, and arm himself before they invade."
#111
- Does not Jesus say, "Whoever finds himself is superior to the world?"
#113
- "... the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do
not see it."
#114 - "For
every woman who will make herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
The
Gospel of Thomas
