What comes out of your mouth is what will defile you." "If they welcome you when you enter any land and go around in the countryside, heal those who are sick among them and eat whatever they give you, because it's not what goes into your mouth that will defile you. Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you'll bring guilt upon yourselves and if you pray, you'll be condemned and if you make donations, you'll harm your spirits. Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the things he said to me, you'll pick up stones and cast them at me, and fire will come out of the stones and burn you up." When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked, "What did Jesus say to you?" He took him aside and told him three things. Because you've drunk, you've become intoxicated by the bubbling spring I've measured out." Thomas said to him, "Teacher, I'm completely unable to say whom you're like." Matthew said to him, "You're like a wise philosopher." Simon Peter said to him, "You're like a just angel." Jesus said to his disciples, "If you were to compare me to someone, who would you say I'm like?" Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you'll go to James the Just, for whom heaven and earth came into being." The disciples said to Jesus, "We know you're going to leave us.
But when you become divided, what will you do?" When you're in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became divided. In the days when you ate what was dead, you made it alive. Those who are dead aren't alive, and those who are living won't die. Jesus said, "This heaven will disappear, and the one above it will disappear too. Saying 11: Those Who Are Living Won't Die (1) Jesus said, "I've cast fire on the world, and look, I'm watching over it until it blazes." Finally, others fell on good soil it produced fruit up toward heaven, some sixty times as much and some a hundred and twenty." Yet others fell on thorns they choked the seeds and worms ate them. Others fell on the rock they didn't take root in the soil and ears of grain didn't rise toward heaven. Some fell on the roadside the birds came and gathered them. Jesus said, "Look, a sower went out, took a handful of seeds, and scattered them. Anyone who has ears to hear should hear!"
Among them the wise fisher found a fine large fish and cast all the little fish back down into the sea, easily choosing the large fish.
He said, "The human being is like a wise fisher who cast a net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion that's eaten by a human and then becomes human, but how awful for the human who's eaten by a lion, and the lion becomes human." Jesus said, "Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because everything is revealed in the sight of heaven for there's nothing hidden that won't be revealed, and nothing covered up that will stay secret." His disciples said to him, "Do you want us to fast? And how should we pray? Should we make donations? And what food should we avoid?" Jesus said, "Know what's in front of your face, and what's hidden from you will be revealed to you, because there's nothing hidden that won't be revealed." Jesus said, "The older person won't hesitate to ask a little seven-day-old child about the place of life, and they'll live, because many who are first will be last, and they'll become one." But if you don't know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty." "When you know yourselves, then you'll be known, and you'll realize that you're the children of the living Father. Rather, the kingdom is within you and outside of you. If they tell you, 'It's in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Jesus said, "If your leaders tell you, 'Look, the kingdom is in heaven,' then the birds of heaven will precede you. When they're disturbed, they'll be amazed, and reign over the All."
Jesus said, "Whoever seeks shouldn't stop until they find. These are the hidden sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.Īnd he said, "Whoever discovers the meaning of these sayings won't taste death." \ Editorial correction of a scribal error
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For additional information about the translation, see the introduction to the PDF version.įor some reflections on the potential meaning and significance of Thomas' Gospel for us today, see my book, The Gospel of Thomas: A New Translation for Spiritual Seekers. For information about the surviving manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas, see the Manuscript Information page. It is based on the Coptic text of Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2. The following translation has been committed to the public domain and may be freely copied and used, changed or unchanged, for any purpose.