The Gospel of Thomas
A collection of 114 sayings of Jesus, focusing on inner, spiritual knowledge and the Kingdom of God being within. A text of radical, personal revelation.
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["Saying 1: And he said, \"Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.\"","Saying 2: Jesus said, \"Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be troubled. When he is troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All.\"","Saying 3: Jesus said, \"If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and it is you who are that poverty.\"","Saying 4: Jesus said, \"The person old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will become last, and they will become a single one.\"","Saying 5: Jesus said, \"Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.\"","Saying 6: Jesus said, \"The kingdom is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds. But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky.\"","Saying 7: Jesus said, \"Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven.\"","Saying 8: Jesus said, \"The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them the wise fisherman found a fine large fish. He threw all the small fish back into the sea and chose the large fish without difficulty. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.\"","Saying 9: Jesus said, \"Now the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered them. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them up. Others fell on the rock, did not take root in the soil, and did not produce ears. And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed and the worm ate them. And others fell on good soil and produced good fruit; it bore sixty per measure and a hundred and twenty per measure.\"","Saying 10: Jesus said, \"I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it is ablaze.\"","Saying 11: Jesus said, \"This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away; and the dead are not living, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is living. When you become light, where will you dwell? When you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?\"","Saying 12: The disciples said to Jesus, \"We know that you will depart from us. Who is it who will be great over us?\" Jesus said to them, \"Wherever you have come, you will go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being.\"","Saying 13: Jesus said to his disciples, \"Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am like.\" Simon Peter said to him, \"You are like a righteous angel.\" Matthew said to him, \"You are like a wise philosopher.\" Thomas said to him, \"Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say whom you are like.\" Jesus said, \"I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out.\"\"","Saying 14: Jesus said to them, \"If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you will do harm to your spirits. When you go into any land and walk from place to place, if they receive you, eat what is set before you, and heal the sick among them.\"","Saying 15: Jesus said, \"When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves on your faces and worship him. That one is your father.\"","Saying 16: Jesus said, \"Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world. They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war.\"","Saying 17: Jesus said, \"I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has not arisen in the human heart.\"","Saying 18: The disciples said to Jesus, \"Tell us how our end will be.\" Jesus said, \"Have you then discovered the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be.\"","Saying 19: Jesus said, \"Blessed is the one who came into being before he came into being. If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister to you.\"","Saying 20: Jesus said, \"For there are five trees for you in Paradise which remain undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall. Whoever becomes acquainted with them will not experience death.\"","Saying 21: Jesus said, \"If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.\"","Saying 22: Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, \"These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.\" They said to him, \"Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?\" Jesus said to them, \"When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female... then will you enter [the kingdom].\"\"","Saying 23: Jesus said, \"I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two out of ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one.\"","Saying 24: Jesus said, \"It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. From me did the all come forth, and to me did the all extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.\"\"","Saying 25: Jesus said, \"Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye.\"","Saying 26: Jesus said, \"You see the mote in your brother's eye, but you do not see the beam in your own eye. When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to cast the mote from your brother's eye.\"","Saying 27: Jesus said, \"If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the kingdom. If you do not keep the Sabbath as a Sabbath, you will not see the father.\"","Saying 28: Jesus said, \"I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty.\"","Saying 29: Jesus said, \"If the flesh came into being because of the spirit, it is a marvel. If the spirit came into being because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels.\"","Saying 30: Jesus said, \"Where there are three gods, they are gods. Where there are two or one, I am with him.\"","Saying 31: Jesus said, \"No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him.\"","Saying 32: Jesus said, \"A city built upon a high mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden.\"","Saying 33: Jesus said, \"What you will hear in your ear, in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops.\"","Saying 34: Jesus said, \"If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a pit.\"","Saying 35: Jesus said, \"It is not possible for anyone to enter the house of the strong man and take it by force unless he bind his hands.\"","Saying 36: Jesus said, \"Do not be concerned from morning until evening and from evening until morning about what you will wear.\"","Saying 37: Jesus said, \"If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to one from whom you will not get it back.\"","Saying 38: Jesus said, \"Many times have you desired to hear these words that I am saying to you, and you have no one else to hear them from.\"","Saying 39: Jesus said, \"The Pharisees and the scribes have received the keys of knowledge and have hidden them.\"","Saying 40: Jesus said, \"A vine was planted outside of the father, and since it is not sound, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed.\"","Saying 41: Jesus said, \"Whoever has something in his hand will receive more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little he has.\"","Saying 42: Jesus said, \"Be passersby.\"","Saying 43: Jesus said, \"The father's kingdom is like a certain woman. She took a little leaven, concealed it in some dough, and made it into large loaves.\"","Saying 44: Jesus said, \"Whoever blasphemes against the father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven.\"","Saying 45: Jesus said, \"Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered from thistles.\"","Saying 46: Jesus said, \"From Adam to John the Baptist, among those born of women, no one is so much greater than John the Baptist that his eyes should not be averted.\"","Saying 47: Jesus said, \"It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows.\"","Saying 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.\"","Saying 49: Jesus said, \"Blessed are the solitary and the chosen, for you will find the kingdom.\"","Saying 50: Jesus said, \"If they say to you, 'Where did you come from?', say to them, 'We came from the light...'\"","Saying 51: His disciples said to him, \"When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?\" He said to them, \"The rest for the dead which you look for has come, but you do not recognize it.\"","Saying 52: Jesus said, \"Woe to the Pharisees, for they are like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen.\"","Saying 53: His disciples said to him, \"Is circumcision beneficial or not?\" He said to them, \"If it were beneficial, their father would beget them already circumcised...\"","Saying 54: Jesus said, \"Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven.\"","Saying 55: Jesus said, \"Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot become a disciple to me.\"","Saying 56: Jesus said, \"Whoever has come to know the world has found a corpse; and whoever has found a corpse, the world is not worthy of him.\"","Saying 57: Jesus said, \"The father's kingdom is like a person who had good seed. His enemy came at night and sowed weeds among the good seed.\"","Saying 58: Jesus said, \"Blessed is the man who has suffered; he has found the life.\"","Saying 59: Jesus said, \"Look to the living one as long as you live, lest you die and seek to see him and you will not be able to see.\"","Saying 60: Jesus said, \"The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. One of them, the largest, went astray...\"","Saying 61: Jesus said, \"Two will rest on a bed: the one will die, the other will live.\"","Saying 62: Jesus said, \"I disclose my mysteries to those who are worthy of my mysteries.\"","Saying 63: Jesus said, \"There was a rich man who had many possessions... And in that night he died.\"","Saying 64: Jesus said, \"A man had a reception. He invited many guests...\"","Saying 65: He said, \"A good man had a vineyard. He leased it to some farmers...\"","Saying 66: Jesus said, \"Show me the stone which the builders have rejected; that one is the cornerstone.\"","Saying 67: Jesus said, \"If one who knows all still lacks something, he lacks that which he does not know.\"","Saying 68: Jesus said, \"Blessed are you when you are hated and persecuted. Wherever you have been persecuted, they will find no place.\"","Saying 69: Jesus said, \"Blessed are they who have been persecuted within themselves. It is they who have truly come to know the father.\"","Saying 70: Jesus said, \"If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you will kill you.\"","Saying 71: Jesus said, \"I will destroy this house, and no one will be able to build it again.\"","Saying 72: A man said to him, \"Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions with me.\" He said to him, \"O man, who has made me a divider?\"","Saying 73: Jesus said, \"The harvest is great but the laborers are few. Beseech the lord, therefore, to send out laborers to the harvest.\"","Saying 74: He said, \"O lord, there are many around the drinking trough, but there is nothing in the cistern.\"","Saying 75: Jesus said, \"Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who will enter the bridal chamber.\"","Saying 76: Jesus said, \"The kingdom of the father is like a merchant who had a consignment of merchandise and who discovered a pearl.\"","Saying 77: Jesus said, \"It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the all. From me did the all come forth, and to me did the all extend. Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there.\"\"","Saying 78: Jesus said, \"Why have you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken by the wind?\"","Saying 79: A woman in the crowd said to him, \"Blessed are the womb which bore you and the breasts which nourished you.\"","Saying 80: Jesus said, \"He who has recognized the world has found the body, but he who has found the body is superior to the world.\"","Saying 81: Jesus said, \"Let him who has grown rich be king, and let him who possesses power renounce it.\"","Saying 82: Jesus said, \"Whoever is near me is near the fire, and whoever is far from me is far from the kingdom.\"","Saying 83: Jesus said, \"The images are manifest to man, but the light in them remains concealed in the image of the light of the father.\"","Saying 84: Jesus said, \"When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you... how much you will have to bear!\"","Saying 85: Jesus said, \"Adam came into being from a great power and a great wealth, and he was not worthy of you.\"","Saying 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.\"","Saying 87: Jesus said, \"Wretched is the body that depends on a body, and wretched is the soul that depends on these two.\"","Saying 88: Jesus said, \"The angels and the prophets will come to you and give to you what belongs to you.\"","Saying 89: Jesus said, \"Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not realize that he who made the inside is also the one who made the outside?\"","Saying 90: Jesus said, \"Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my lordship is mild, and you will find rest for yourselves.\"","Saying 91: They said to him, \"Tell us who you are so that we may believe in you.\" He said to them, \"You test the face of the sky and of the earth, yet you have not recognized him who is before you...\"","Saying 92: Jesus said, \"Seek and you will find. But what I asked you about in the past, which I did not tell you then, now I do desire to tell, but you do not ask for it.\"","Saying 93: Jesus said, \"Give not what is holy to dogs, lest they throw them on the dung-heap. Give not the pearls to swine...\"","Saying 94: Jesus said, \"He who seeks will find, he who knocks will be let in.\"","Saying 95: Jesus said, \"If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to one from whom you will not get it back.\"","Saying 96: Jesus said, \"The father's kingdom is like a certain woman. She took a little leaven, concealed it in some dough, and made it into large loaves. Let him who has ears hear.\"","Saying 97: Jesus said, \"The father's kingdom is like a certain woman who was carrying a jar full of meal...\"","Saying 98: Jesus said, \"The father's kingdom is like a certain man who wanted to kill a powerful man.\"","Saying 99: Jesus said, \"The father's kingdom is like a certain man who is looking for a hidden treasure in a field which belongs to someone else.\"","Saying 100: They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, \"The Caesar's men demand taxes from us.\" He said to them, \"Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give to God what belongs to God, and give to me what is mine.\"","Saying 101: Jesus said, \"Whoever does not hate his father and his mother as I do cannot become a disciple to me...\"","Saying 102: Jesus said, \"Woe to the Pharisees, for they are like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen...\"","Saying 103: Jesus said, \"Blessed is the man who knows where the robbers are going to enter...\"","Saying 104: Jesus said, \"They said to Jesus, 'Come, let us pray today and let us fast.' Jesus said, 'What sin have I committed...?'\"","Saying 105: Jesus said, \"Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the son of a harlot.\"","Saying 106: Jesus said, \"When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away.\"","Saying 107: Jesus said, \"The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep...\"","Saying 108: Jesus said, \"He who drinks from my mouth becomes me. I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him.\"\"","Saying 109: Jesus said, \"The kingdom is like a man who had a treasure hidden in his field without knowing it.\"","Saying 110: Jesus said, \"Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, let him renounce the world.\"","Saying 111: Jesus said, \"The heavens and the earth will be rolled up in your presence...\"","Saying 112: Jesus said, \"Woe to the flesh which depends on the soul; woe to the soul which depends on the flesh.\"","Saying 113: His disciples said to him, \"When will the kingdom come?\" Jesus said, \"It will not come by waiting for it... the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.\"","Saying 114: Simon Peter said to him, \"Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life.\" Jesus said, \"I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she also may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.\"\""]