The Gospel According To Thomas

TrueSight Translation


These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke
and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.


1)   And he said, "Whoever finds the inner meaning of these words will not taste death."

2)   Jesus said, "Let him who seeks not cease seeking until he finds, and when he finds, he will be troubled. When he has been troubled, he will marvel, and he will reign over the All."

3)   Jesus said, "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in heaven,' then the birds of the heaven will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is without 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 will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."

4)   Jesus said, "The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child of seven days  about the place of Life, and he will live. For many who are first shall become last, and they shall become a single one."

5)   Jesus said, "Know what is in the presence of your face, and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest."

6)   His disciples questioned him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How shall we pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we observe?"  Jesus said, "Do not lie, and do not do what you hate, for all things are exposed in the presence of the sky. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing covered that will remain undiscovered."

7)   Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion which the man consumes and the lion becomes man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and the lion becomes man."
 
8)   And he 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 and good fish. He threw all the small fish back into the sea and chose the large fish without trouble. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

9)   Jesus said, "Now the sower went out, filled his hand with seeds, and cast. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them up. Others fell on the rock, did not send roots down to the earth, and did not send ears rising to the sky. And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed and the worm ate them. And others fell on good earth and produced good fruit: it bore sixty per measure and a hundred and twenty per measure."

10)  Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and behold, I watch over it until it is ablaze."
 
11)  Jesus said, "This sky shall pass away, and the one above it shall pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it alive. When you come into the light, what will you do? On the day you were one you made two, but having become two, what will you do?"

12)  The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you will depart from us. Who is to be our rabbi?"  Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."

13)  Jesus said to his disciples, "Make a comparison to me and tell me whom I resemble."
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, "Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like."
     Jesus said, "I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated by the bubbling spring which I have measured out."  And he took him and withdrew and spoke to him three words. When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
     Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the words he has spoken to me, you will take stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of the stones and burn you."

14)  Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will give rise to sin for yourselves; and if you pray, they will condemn you; and if you give alms, you will do harm to your spirits. When you go into any land and walk about in the districts, if they receive you, eat what they set before you, and heal the sick among them. For what goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that which issues from your mouth - it is that which will defile you."

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."

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 divisions which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war. For there will come to be five in a house: three will come to be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father. And they will stand to their feet alone.

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 heart of man."



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