Gospel of Thomas
These are the secret sayings which the living Yeshúa' has spoken and Didymos Judas Thomas inscribed. (Lk 8:10)
1. And he
«says»: Whoever finds the interpretation of these
sayings shall not taste death. (Isa 25:8, Lk 9:27, Jn 8:51; this is
apparently a meta-saying of Thomas himself, since it speaks of the following as
a collection of sayings; throughout the Greek fragments of Thomas, 'x says' is
in the present tense)
2. Yeshua
says: Let him who seeks not cease seeking until he finds, and when he finds he
shall be troubled, and when he has been troubled he shall marvel and he shall
reign over everything «and find repose». (Dan 7:27, Lk 1:29, Rev/Ap 1:6, 3:21,
5:10, 20:4)
3. Yeshua
says: If those who would lead you, say to you: Behold, the kingdom is in the
sky!, then the birds of the
sky would precede you. If they say to you: It is in the sea!, then the fish
«of the sea» would precede you. But the kingdom «of God» is within you and it is
without you. «Those who come to know themselves shall find it, and when you come
to know yourselves» then you shall know that you are the Sons of the living
Father. Yet if you do not know yourselves then you are impoverished and you are
poverty.
(Dt 30:11-14, Mal 2:10, Lk 17:21, Plato's Philebus 48c, 63c)
4. Yeshua
says: The person old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven
days concerning the place of life—and he shall live. For many who are first
shall become last, «and the last first». And they shall become a single unity.
(Gen 2:2-3, 17:12,
Mt 11:25-26,
Lk 10:21)
5. Yeshua
says: Recognize what is in front of thy face, and what is hidden from thee shall
be revealed to thee. For there is nothing concealed which shall not be revealed
«and nothing buried that shall not be raised».
6. His
disciples ask him,* they say to him: How do thou want us to fast, and how shall
we pray? And how shall we give alms, and what diet shall we maintain? | Yeshua
says: Do not lie, and do not practice what you hate—for everything is manifest
before the face of the
sky. For there is nothing concealed that shall not be revealed, and there is
nothing covered that shall remain without being exposed. (*asyndeton, or
omission of conjunctions, characterizing Semitic languages but not Greek or
Coptic—thus signaling a Semitic source-language)
7. Yeshua
says:
Blest be the lion which the human eats—and the lion shall become human. And
accursed be the human which the lion eats—and the [human] shall become [lion].
8. And he
says: The [kingdom] is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea. He
drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them he found a large good
fish. That wise fisherman, he threw all the small fish back into the sea,* he
chose the large fish without hesitation. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!
(*asyndeton)
9. Yeshua
says: Behold, the sower came forth—he filled his hand, he threw. Some indeed
fell upon the road—the birds came, they gathered them. Others fell on the
bedrock—and they did not take root down into the soil, and did not sprout grain
skyward. And others fell among the thorns—they choked the seed, and the worm ate
them. And others fell upon the good earth—and it produced good fruit up toward
the
sky, it bore 60-fold and 120-fold. (multiple asyndeta; Mt 13:18-23)
10. Yeshua
says: I have cast fire upon the
world—and behold, I guard it until it is ablaze.(Lk 12:49)
11. Yeshua
says: This
sky shall pass away, and the one above it shall pass away. And the dead are
not alive, and the living shall not die. In the days when you consumed the dead,
you transformed it to life—when you come into the light, what will you do? On
the day when you were together, you became separated—yet when you have become
separated, what will you do? (Mt 24:35)
12. The
disciples say to Yeshua: We know that thou shall go away from us. Who is it that
shall be
Rabbi over us? | Yeshua says to them: In the place that you have come, you
shall go to
Jacob the Righteous, for whose sake the
sky and earth come to be.
(apparently a post-resurrection dialog; vide Jn 7:5 & Ac 1:14)
13. Yeshua
says to his disciples: Make a comparison to me, and tell me whom I resemble. |
Simon
Peter says to him: Thou are like a righteous angel.|
Matthew says to him: Thou are like a philosopher of the heart. | Thomas says
to him: Teacher, my mouth will not at all be capable of saying whom thou are
like. | Yeshua says: I'm not thy teacher, now that thou have drunk, thou have
become drunken from the bubbling spring which I have measured out. And he takes
him, he withdraws, he speaks three words to him:
ahyh ashr ahyh
I•Am Who I•Am
Now when Thomas comes to his comrades, they inquire of him: What did Yeshua say
to thee? | Thomas says to them: If I tell you even one of the words which he
spoke to me, you will take up stones to cast at me—and fire will come from the
stones to consume you. (the Name does not appear in the papyrus, but can be
inferred;
Ex 3:14, Lev 24:16, Mk 14:62, Lk 6:40, Jn 4:14, 15:1,
Th 61b,
77, Odes of
Solomon 11:6-9)
14. Yeshua
says to them: If you fast, you shall beget transgression for yourselves. And if
you pray, you shall be condemned. And if you give alms, you shall cause evil to
your spirits. And when you go into any land to sojourn in the regions, if they
receive you then eat what they set before you and heal the sick among them. For
what goes into your mouth will not defile you—but rather what comes out of your
mouth, that is what will defile you. (Isa 58:6-9, Mt 6:6 + Jn 18:1,
Th 6,
95,
104,
Ph 74)
15. Yeshua
says: When you see him who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves upon your
faces and worship him | he is your Father.
16. Yeshua
says: People perhaps think that I have come to cast peace upon the
world, and they do not know that I have come to cast divisions upon the
earth—fire, sword, war. For there shall be five in a house—three shall be
against two and two against three, the father against the son and the son
against the father. And they shall stand as solitaries.
17. Yeshua
says: I shall give to you what eye has not seen and what ear has not heard and
what hand has not touched and what has not arisen in the mind of mankind. (Isa
64:4)
18. The
disciples say to Yeshua: Tell us how our end shall be. | Yeshua says: Have you
then discovered the
origin, so that you inquire about the end? For at the place where the origin
is, there shall be the end.
Blest be he who shall stand at the origin—and he shall know the end, and he
shall not taste death.
19. Yeshua
says:
Blest be he who was before he came into being. If you become disciples to me
and heed my
sayings, these stones shall minister to you. For you have five
trees in paradise, which in summer are unmoved and in winter their leaves do
not fall—whoever is acquainted with them shall not taste death.
20. The
disciples say to Yeshua: Tell us what the kingdom of the
heavens is like. | He says to them: It resembles a mustard seed, smaller
than all (other) seeds—yet when it falls on the tilled earth, it produces a
great plant and becomes shelter for the birds of the
sky.
21.
Mary says to Yeshua: Whom are thy disciples like? | He says: They are like
little children who are sojourning in a field which is not theirs. When the
owners of the field come, they will say: Leave our field to us! They take off
their clothing in front of them in order to yield it to them and to give back
their field to them. Therefore I say, if the householder ascertains that the
thief is coming, he will be alert before he arrives and will not allow him to
dig thru into the house of his domain to carry away his belongings. Yet you,
beware of the
system—gird up your loins with great strength lest the bandits find a way to
reach you, for they will find the advantage which you anticipate. Let there be
among you a person of awareness—when the fruit ripened, he came quickly with his
sickle in his hand,* he reaped it. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!
(*asyndeton)
22. Yeshua
sees little children who are being suckled. He says to his disciples: These
little children who are being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom. |
They say to him: Shall we thus by becoming little children enter the kingdom? |
Yeshua says to them: When you make the two one, and you make the inside as the
outside and the outside as the inside and the above as the below, and if you
establish the male with the female as a single unity so that the man will not be
masculine and the woman not be feminine, when you establish [an eye] in the
place of an eye and a hand in the place of a hand and a foot in the place of a
foot and an
image in the place of an image then shall you enter [the kingdom].
23. Yeshua
says: I shall choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand—and they
shall stand as a single unity.
(Dt 32:30, Ecc 7:28, Jer 3:14)
24. His
disciples say: Explain thy place to us, for it is compulsory for us to seek it.
| He says to them: Whoever has ears, let him hear! Within a person of light
there is light, and he illumines the entire
world. When he does not shine, there is darkness.(Mt 5:14-16, Jn 12:36)
25. Yeshua
says:
Love thy brother as thy soul, protect him as the pupil of thine eye.
(asyndeton; Dt 32:10, I-Sam 18:1, Ps 17:8, Jn 13:34-35)
26. Yeshua
says: The mote, which is in thy brother's eye, thou see—but the plank that is in
thine own eye thou see not. When thou cast the plank out of thine own eye, then
shall thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye.
27. (Yeshua
says:) Unless you fast from the
system, you shall not find the kingdom «of God». Unless you keep the
(entire) week as sabbath, you shall not behold the Father. (Mk 1:13, Jn 5:19!;
see Paterson Brown, Novum Testamentum 1992)
28. Yeshua
says: I stood in the midst of the
world, and incarnate* I was manifest to them. I found them all drunk, I
found none among them athirst. And my soul was grieved for the sons of men, for
they are blind in their hearts and do not see that empty they have come into the
world and that empty they are destined to come forth again from the world. (Ecc
6:15) However, now they are drunk—when they have shaken off their wine, then
shall they
rethink.
(* re 'Gnosticism',
Jn 1:14!—this appears to be a post-resurrection saying)
29. Yeshua
says: If the flesh has come into being because of spirit, it is a marvel—yet if
spirit because of the body, it would be a marvel among marvels. But I marvel at
this, how this great wealth has inhabited this poverty.
30. Yeshua
says: Where there are three gods, they are «godless. Where there is only one, I
say that» I myself am with him. «Raise the stone and there you shall find me,
cleave the wood and there am I.» (cp. The Letter of Aristeas 15-16)
31. Yeshua
says: No
oracle is accepted in his own village, no physician heals those who know
him. (asyndeton)
32. Yeshua
says: A city being built upon a high mountain and fortified cannot fall nor can
it be hidden.
33. Yeshua
says: What thou shall hear in thy ear proclaim to other ears from your rooftops.
For no one kindles a lamp and sets it under a bushel-basket nor puts it in a
hidden place, but rather it is placed upon the lamp stand so that everyone who
comes in and goes out will see its light.
34. Yeshua
says: If a blind person leads a blind person, both together fall into a pit.
35. Yeshua
says: It is impossible for anyone to enter the house of the strong to take it by
force, unless he binds his hands—then he will ransack his house. (Isa 49:24-25)
36. Yeshua
says: Be not anxious in the morning about the evening or in the evening about
the morning, «either for your [food] that you shall eat or for [your clothing]
that you shall wear. You are much superior to the [windflowers] which neither
comb (wool) nor [spin] (thread). Having one garment what do you [lack]? Or who
can increase your stature? He himself shall give to you your garment.»
37. His
disciples say: When will thou be revealed to us, and when shall we behold thee?
| Yeshua says: When you take off your clothing without being ashamed, and take
your clothes and place them under your feet to tread on them as the little
children do—then [shall you behold] the Son of the living-one, and you shall not
fear.
(Gen 2:25, 3:7; this appears to be a post-resurrection dialog)
38. Yeshua
says: Many times have you yearned to hear these
sayings which I speak to you, and you have no one else from whom to hear
them. There will be days when you will seek me but you shall not find me. (Prov
1:28, Lk 17:22)
39. Yeshua
says: The
clergy and the theologians have received the keys of knowledge, but they
have hidden them. They did not enter, nor did they permit those to enter who
wished to. Yet you—become astute as serpents and pure as doves.
40. Yeshua
says: A vine has been planted without the Father, and as it is not viable it
shall be pulled up by its roots and destroyed.
(Mt 15:13)
41. Yeshua
says: Whoever has in his hand, to him shall (more) be given. And whoever does
not have, from him shall be taken even the trifle which he has. (Mt 13:12, Lk
12:48)
42. Yeshua
says: Become transients.(Mt 10:1-23, 28:19-20, Jn 16:28)
43. His
disciples say to him: Who are thou, that thou say these things to us? | (Yeshua
says to them:) From what I say to you, you do not recognize who I be, but rather
you have become as the Jews—for they
love the tree but hate its fruit, and they love the fruit but hate the tree.
(Mt 12:33)
44. Yeshua
says: Whoever vilifies the Father, it shall be forgiven him. And whoever
vilifies the Son, it shall be forgiven him. Yet whoever vilifies the Holy
Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him—neither on earth nor in
heaven.
45. Yeshua
says: They do not harvest grapes from thorns, nor do they gather figs from
thistles—for they give no fruit. A good person brings forth goodness out of his
treasure. A bad person brings forth wickedness out of his evil treasure which is
in his heart, and he speaks oppressively—for out of the abundance of the heart
he brings forth wickedness.
(I-Sam 24:13)
46. Yeshua
says: From Adam until
John the Baptist there is among those born of women none more exalted than
John the Baptist—so that his eyes shall not be broken. Yet I have said that
whoever among you becomes childlike shall know the kingdom, and he shall become
more exalted than John. (Lk 7:28,
Th 15)
47. Yeshua
says: It is impossible for a person to mount two horses or to stretch two bows,
and it is impossible for a slave to serve two masters—otherwise he will honor
the one and offend the other. No person drinks
vintage wine and immediately desires to drink new wine, and they do not put
new (wine) into old wineskins lest they burst, and they do not put vintage wine
into new wineskins lest it sour. They do not sew an old patch on a new garment
because there would come a split.
48. Yeshua
says: If two make peace with each other in this one house, they shall say to the
mountain: Be moved!—and it shall be moved.
49. Yeshua
says:
Blest be the solitary and chosen—for you shall find the kingdom. You have
come from it, and unto it you shall return. (Jn 16:28)
50. Yeshua
says: If they say to you: 'From whence do you come?', say to them: 'We have come
from the light, the place where the light has originated thru himself—he stood
and he revealed himself in their
imagery.' If they say to you: 'Who are you?', say: 'We are his Sons and we
are the chosen of the living Father.' If they ask you: 'What is the sign of your
Father in you?', say to them: 'It is movement with repose.' (Lk 16:8, Jn 12:36)
51. His
disciples say to him: When will the repose of the dead occur, and when will the
new
world come? | He says to them: That which you look for has already come, but
you do not recognize it.
52. His
disciples say to him: Twenty-four
prophets proclaimed in Israel, and they all spoke in thee. | He says to
them: You have ignored the living-one who is facing you, and you have spoken
about the dead.
53. His
disciples say to him: Is circumcision beneficial or not? | He says to them: If
it were beneficial, their father would beget them circumcised from their mother.
But the true spiritual circumcision has become entirely beneficial.
54. Yeshua
says:
Blest be the poor, for the kingdom of the skies is yours.
55. Yeshua
says: Whoever does not hate his father and his mother will not be able to become
a disciple to me. And whoever does not hate his brothers and his sisters and
does not take up his own cross* in my way, will not become worthy of me. (Lk
14:26-27)
56. Yeshua
says: Whoever has known the
system has found a corpse—and whoever has found a corpse, of him the system
is not worthy.
57. Yeshua
says: The kingdom of the Father is like a person who has [good] seed. His enemy
came by night,* he sowed a weed among the good seed. The man did not permit them
to pull up the weed. He says to them: 'Lest perhaps you go forth saying: "We
shall pull up the weed!"—and you pull up the wheat along with it.' For on the
day of harvest the weeds will appear—they pull them and burn them. (*asyndeton;
II-Pt 3:15-17?!)
58. Yeshua
says:
Blest be the person who has suffered—he has found the life.(asyndeton; Mt
5:10-12, Jas 1:12, I-Pt 3:14)
59. Yeshua
says: Behold the living-one while you are alive, lest you die and seek to
perceive him and be unable to see.
60. (They
see) a
Samaritan carrying a lamb, entering Judea. Yeshua says to them: Why does he
(take) the lamb with him? | They say to him: So that he may kill it and eat it.
| He says to them: While it is alive he will not eat it, but only after he kills
it and it becomes a corpse. | They say: Otherwise he will not be able to do it.
| He says to them: You yourselves seek a place for yourselves in repose, lest
you become corpses and be eaten.
61a. Yeshua
says: Two will rest on a
bed the one shall die, the other shall live. (asyndeton; Lk 17:34)
61b.
Salome says: Who are thou, man? As if (sent) from someone, thou laid upon my
bed and thou ate from my table. | Yeshua says to her: I•Am he who is from
equality. To me have been given the things of my Father. | (Salome says:) I'm
thy disciple.* | (Yeshua says to her:) Thus I say that whenever someone
equalizes he shall be filled with light, yet whenever he divides he shall be
filled with darkness.
(*'thy disciple': Coptic indicates a masculine possessive of a feminine noun;
see Plumley, Bibliography #3, §50, or the online grammar Bibliography #18,
lesson 5.1)
62. Yeshua
says: I tell my mysteries to those [who are worthy of] my mysteries. What thy
right (hand) shall do, let not thy left (hand) ascertain what it does. (Mk
4:10-12)
63. Yeshua
says: There was a wealthy person who possessed much money, and he said: I shall
utilize my money so that I may sow and reap and replant, to fill my storehouses
with fruit so that I lack nothing. This is what he thought in his heart—and that
night he died. Whoever has ears, let him hear!
64a. Yeshua
says: A person had houseguests, and when he had prepared the banquet he sent his
slave to invite the guests. He went to the first, he says to him: My master
invites thee. He replied: I have some business with some merchants, they are
coming to me in the evening, I shall go to place my orders with them—I beg to be
excused from the banquet. He went to another, he says to him: My master has
invited thee. He replied to him: I have bought a house and they require me for a
day, I shall have no leisure time. He came to another, he says to him: My master
invites thee. He replied to him: My comrade is to be married and I must arrange
a feast, I shall not be able to come—I beg to be excused from the banquet. He
went to another, he says to him: My master invites thee. He replied to him: I
have bought a villa, I go to receive the rent, I shall not be able to come—I beg
to be excused. The slave came, he said to his master: Those whom thou have
invited to the banquet have excused themselves. The master said to his slave: Go
out to the roads, bring those whom thou shall find so that they may feast.
(multiple asyndeta)
64b. (And he
says:) Tradesmen and merchants shall not enter the places of my Father.
(Ezek 27 28, Zech 14:21,
Jn 2:13-16, Rev/Ap 18:11-20)
65. He says:
A
kind person had a vineyard. He gave it out to tenants so that they would
work it and he would receive its fruit from them. He sent his slave so that the
tenants would give to him the fruit of the vineyard. They seized his slave, they
beat him—a little longer and they would have killed him. The slave went, he told
it to his master. His master said: Perhaps [they] did not recognize [him]. He
sent another slave—the tenants beat him as well. Then the owner sent his son. He
said: Perhaps they will respect my son. Since those tenants knew that he was the
heir of the vineyard, they seized him, they killed him. Whoever has ears, let
him hear! (multiple asyndeta)
66. Yeshua
says: Show me the stone which the builders have rejected—it is the cornerstone.
(Isa 28:16)
67. Yeshua
says: Whoever knows everything, but fails (to know) himself, lacks everything. (Th
3)
68. Yeshua
says:
Blest be you when you are hated and persecuted and find no place there where
you have been persecuted.
69a. Yeshua
says:
Blest be those who have been persecuted in their heart—these are they who
have known the Father in truth.
69b. (Yeshua
says:)
Blest be the hungry, for the stomach of him who desires shall be filled.
70. Yeshua
says: When you bring forth that which is within you, this that you have shall
save you. If you do not have that within you, this which you do not have within
you will kill you. (Mt 13:52)
71. Yeshua
says: I shall destroy [this] house, and no one will be able to [re]build it.
72. [Someone
says] to him: Tell my brothers to divide the possessions of my father with me. |
He says to him: Oh man, who made me a divider? | He turned to his disciples,* he
says to them: I'm not a divider, am I? (*asyndeton)
73. Yeshua
says: The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the workers are few. Yet beseech the
Lord that he send workers into the harvest.
74. He says:
Lord, there are many around the reservoir, yet no one in the reservoir.
75. Yeshua
says: There are many standing at the door, but the solitary are those who shall
enter the
bridal-suite.
76. Yeshua
says: The kingdom of the Father is like a merchant possessing a fortune, who
found a pearl. That merchant was shrewd—he sold the fortune, he bought the one
pearl for himself. You yourselves, seek for [the treasure of his face], which
perishes not, which endures—the place where no moth comes near to devour nor
worm ravages. (multiple asyndeta; Ps 11:7, 17:15)
77. Yeshua
says: I•Am the light who is above them all, I•Am the all. All came forth from me
and all return to me. Cleave wood,* there am I. Lift up the stone and there you
shall find me. (*asyndeton; Jn 8:12)
78. Yeshua
says: Why did you come out to the
wilderness—to see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a person dressed in
plush garments? [Behold, your] rulers and your dignitaries are those who are
clad in plush garments, and they shall not be able to recognize the truth.
79. A woman
from the multitude says to him:
Blest be the womb which bore thee, and the breasts which nursed thee! | He
says to her:
Blest be those who have heard the meaning of the Father and have kept it in
truth. For there shall be days when you will say:
Blest be the womb which has not conceived and the breasts which have not
nursed. (Lk 1:42)
80. Yeshua
says: Whoever has known the
system has found the body—and whoever has found the body, of him the system
is not worthy.
(Th 56)
81. Yeshua
says: Let whoever is enriched be made sovereign, and let whoever has power
renounce it.
82. Yeshua
says: Whoever is close to me is close to the fire, and whoever is far from me is
far from the kingdom.
83. Yeshua
says: The
images are manifest to mankind, and the light which is within them is
hidden. (Th 19)
He shall reveal himself in the
imagery of the light of the Father—[yet] his
image is concealed by his light.
84. Yeshua
says: When you see your reflection, you rejoice. Yet when you perceive your
images which come into being in front of you—which neither die nor
disguise—to what extent will they depend upon you? (this is the epistemological
hinge of the entire text; Ps 139:16, Jn 5:19,
Th 19!)
85. Yeshua
says: Adam came into existence from a great power and a great wealth, and yet he
did not become worthy of you. For if he had been worthy, he would not have
tasted death.
86. Yeshua
says: [The foxes have their dens] and the birds have their nests, yet the son of
mankind has no place to lay his head for rest.
87. Yeshua
says: Wretched be the body which depends upon (another) body, and wretched be
the soul which depends upon their being together.
88. Yeshua
says: The angels and the
oracles shall come to you, and they shall bestow upon you what is yours. And
you yourselves, give to them what is in your hands, and say among yourselves: On
what day will they come to receive what is theirs?
89. Yeshua
says: Why do you wash the outside of the chalice? Do you not mind that he who
creates the inside is also he who creates the outside? (Lk 11:39-41)
90. Yeshua
says: Come unto me, for my
yoga is
natural and my lordship is gentle—and you shall find repose for yourselves.
91. They say
to him: Tell us who thou are, so that we may believe in thee. | He says to them:
You examine the face of the
sky and of the earth—yet you do not recognize him who is facing you, and you
do not know to inquire of him at this moment. (Th
5,
52,
76,
84)
92. Yeshua
says: Seek and you shall find. But those things which you asked me in those
days, I did not tell you then. Now I wish to tell them, and you do not inquire
about them.
93. (Yeshua
says:) Give not what is holy to the dogs, lest they throw it on the dungheap.
Cast not the pearls to the swine, lest they cause it to become [...].
94. Yeshua
[says:] Whoever seeks shall find. [And whoever knocks,] it shall be opened to
him.
95. [Yeshua
says:] If you have copper-coins,* do not lend at interest—but rather give it to
those from whom you will not be repaid. (Lk 6:30-36; *here in the bound codex
there is a single sheet blank on both sides)
96. Yeshua
says: The kingdom of the Father is like a woman who has taken a little yeast and
has hidden it in dough—she produced large loaves of it. Whoever has ears, let
him hear!
97. Yeshua
says: The kingdom of the [Father] is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of
grain. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke, the
grain streamed out behind her onto the road. She did not know it, she had
noticed no accident. When she arrived in her house, she set the jar down—she
found it empty. (multiple asyndeta)
98. Yeshua
says: The kingdom of the Father is like a person who wishes to slay a prominent
man. He drew forth his sword in his house,* he thrust it thru the wall in order
to ascertain whether his hand would prevail. Then he slew the prominent man.
(*asyndeton)
99. His
disciples say to him: Thy brothers-and-sisters and thy mother are standing
outside. | He says to them: Those here who practice the desires of my
Father—these are my brothers-and-sisters and my mother. It is they who shall
enter the kingdom of my Father.
(Th 15)
100. They
show Yeshua a gold coin, and they say to him: The agents of Caesar extort
tribute from us. | He says to them: Give the things of Caesar to Caesar, give
the things of God to God, and give to me what is mine. (Rev/Ap 13:18¬I-Ki
10:14?!—an extraordinary gematria)
101. (Yeshua
says:) Whoever does not hate his father and his mother in my way shall not be
able to become a disciple to me. And whoever does [not]
love his [Father] and his Mother in my way shall not be able to become a
disciple to me. For my mother [bore me], yet [my] true [Mother] gave me the
life.
(Jn 2:4)
102. Yeshua
says: Woe unto them, the
clergy—for they are like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen. For neither
does he eat, nor does he allow the oxen to eat.(The Fables of
Aesop)
103. Yeshua
says:
Blest be the person who knows in which part the bandits may invade, so that
he shall arise and collect his [belongings] and gird up his loins before they
enter. (Mt 24:43)
104. They
say [to him:] Come, let us pray today and let us fast. | Yeshua says: Which then
is the transgression that I have committed, or in what have I been vanquished?
But when the bridegroom comes forth from the
bridal-suite, then let them fast and let them pray. (Mk 2:19-20,
Th 14)
105. Yeshua
says: Whoever acknowledges father and mother, shall be called the son of a
harlot. (Mt 23:8-9)
106. Yeshua
says: When you make the two one, you shall become sons of mankind—and when you
say to the mountain: Be moved!, it shall be moved.
(Th 22)
107. Yeshua
says: The kingdom is like a shepherd who has 100 sheep. One of them went astray,
which was the largest. He left the 99, he sought for the one until he found it.
Having wearied himself, he said to that sheep: I desire thee more than the 99.
(Ezek 34:15-16)
108. Yeshua
says: Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become like me. I myself shall become
him, and the secrets shall be revealed unto him. (Lk 6:40, Jn 4:7-15, 7:37)
109. Yeshua
says: The kingdom is like a person who has a treasure hidden in his field
without knowing it. And after he died, he bequeathed it to his [son. The] son
did not know about it, he accepted that field, he sold it. And he came who
purchased it—he plowed it, [he found] the treasure. He began to lend money at
interest to whomever he wishes.(multiple asyndeta; Mt 13:44)
110. Yeshua
says: Whoever has found the
system and been enriched, let him renounce the system.(Th
81)
111. Yeshua
says: The
sky and the earth shall be rolled up in your presence. And he who lives from
within the living-one shall see neither death [nor fear]—for Yeshua says:
Whoever finds himself, of him the
world is not worthy. (Isa 34:4, Lk 21:33, Rev/Ap 6:14)
112. Yeshua
says: Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul, woe to the soul which
depends upon the flesh.(asyndeton;
Th 87)
113. His
disciples say to him: When will the kingdom come? | (Yeshua says:) It shall not
come by expectation. They will not say: Behold here! or: Behold there! But the
kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth, and humans do not perceive it. (Lk
17:20-21)
114. Simon
Peter says to them: Let
Mary depart from among us, for women are not worthy of the life. | Yeshua
says: Behold, I shall
inspire her so that I make her male, in order that she herself shall become
a living spirit like you males. For every female who becomes male shall enter
the kingdom of the
heavens. (Gen 3:16,
Th 22)
Translated by:
Paterson Brown, BA (Amherst), PhD (London)
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