translated by A. Guillaumont, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Walter Till, and Yassah 'Abd Al Masih
© E. J. Brill, 1959
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Table of Contents:
• Inside Cover
• Preliminary Remarks
• Log 1-4
• Log 5-8
• Log 9-11
• Log 12-13
• Log 14-16
• Log 17-19
• Log 20-21
• Log 22
• Log 23-28
• Log 29-33
• Log 34-38
• Log 39-44
• Log 45-47
• Log 48-51
• Log 52-57
• Log 58-61
• Log 62-64
• Log 64
• Log 65-68
• Log 69a-76
• Log 77-79
• Log 80-85
• Log 86-91
• Log 92-97
• Log 98-102
• Log 103-107
• Log 108-113
• Log 114
• Scriptural Parallels and Echoes
Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until it (the world) is afire....
Jesus said to them: If you fast, you will beget sin for yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give alms, you will do evil to your spirits....
When you see Him who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves upon your face and adore Him: He is your Father. Jesus said: Men possibly think that I have come to throw peace upon the world and they do not know that I have come to throw 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 will stand as solitaries....
When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female (not) be female, when you make eyes 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 ....
If you fast not from the world, you will not find the Kingdom; if you keep not the Sabbath as Sabbath, you will not see the Father....
And my soul was afflicted for the sons of men, because they are blind in their heart and do not see that empty they have come into the world (and that) empty they seek to go out of the world again....
You have become as the Jews, for they love the tree, they hate its fruit and they love the fruit, they hate the tree....
Jesus said: Whoever blasphemes against the Father, it shall be forgiven him, and whoever blasphemes against the Son, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, either on earth or in heaven....
Jesus said: If they say to you: "From where have you originated?", say to them: "We have come from the Light, where the Light has originated through itself. It stood and it revealed itself in their image". If they say to you: "(Who) are you?", say: "We are His sons and we are the elect of the Living Father". If they ask you: "What is the sign of your Father in you?", say to them: "It is a movement and a rest"....
Jesus said: Whoever does not hate his father and his mother will not be able to be a disciple to Me, and (whoever does not) hate his brethren and his sisters and (does not) take up his cross in My way will not be worthy of Me....
I am He who is from the Same, to Me was given from the things of My Father. Therefore I say, if he is the Same, he will be filled with light, but if he is divided, he will be filled with darkness....
What thy right (hand) will do, let not thy left (hand) know what it does....
Jesus said: Blessed are you when you are hated and persecuted; and no place will be found there where you have been persecuted....
Jesus said: I shall destroy this house and no one will be able to build it again....
I am not a divider, am I?....
Jesus said: Many are standing at the door, but the solitary are the ones who will enter the bridal chamber....
Jesus said: I am the Light that is above them all, I am the All, the All came forth from Me and the All attained to Me....
Jesus said: Adam came into existence from a great power, great wealth, and (yet) he did not become worthy of you. For if he had been worthy, he would not have tasted death....
Wretched is the body which depends upon a body, and wretched is the soul which depends upon these two....
Come to Me, for easy is My yoke and My lordship is gentle, and you shall find repose for yourselves....
Jesus said: The Kingdom of the Father is like a man who wishes to kill a powerful man. He drew the sword in his house, he stuck it into the wall, in order to know whether his hand would carry through; then he slew the powerful (man)....
Whoever does not hate his father and his mother in My way will not be able to be a disciple to me. And whoever does not love his father and his mother in My way will not be able to be a disciple to me, for My mother [ ] but My true Mother gave me the Life....
Whoever knows father and mother shall be called the son of a harlot....
Whoever has found the world and become rich, let him deny the world....
Jesus said: Woe to the flesh which depends upon the soul; woe to the soul which depends upon the flesh....
Simon Peter said to them: Let Mary go out from among us, because women are not worthy of the Life. Jesus said: See, I shall lead her, so that I will make her male, that she too may become a living spirit, resembling you males. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
-- The Gospel According to Thomas, translated by A. Guillaumont, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Walter Till, and Yassah 'Abd Al Masih