Gospel of Thomas

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gospel of Thomas
Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer
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"These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded.
1. And he said, 'Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.'
. Jesus said, 'hose who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]'
3. Jesus said, 'Your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) 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 (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
'When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty.'
4. Jesus said, 'The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.
'For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one.'
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. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.]'
6. His disciples asked him and said to him, 'Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?'
Jesus said, 'Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed.'
7. Jesus said, 'Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.'
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Selection from Robert J. Miller, ed., The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version. (Polebridge Press, 1992, 1994).