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1. And he
said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings
will not taste death."
2. Jesus said, "Those 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, "If 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 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."
8. And he said, The person is like a wise fisherman who cast
his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of
little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a fine
large fish. He threw all the little fish back into the sea,
and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with two good
ears had better listen!
9. Jesus said, Look, the sower went out, took a handful of
seeds, and scattered them. Some fell on the road, and the
birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they
didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of
grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and
worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it
produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one
hundred twenty per measure.
10. Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look,
I'm guarding it until it blazes."
11. Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one
above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the
living will not die. During the days when you ate what is
dead, you made it come alive. When you are in the light,
what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became
two. But when you become two, what will you do?"
12. The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you are going
to leave us. Who will be our leader?" Jesus said to them,
"No matter where you are you are to go to James the Just,
for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
13. Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to something
and tell me what I am like." Simon Peter said to him, "You
are like a just messenger." Matthew said to him, "You are
like a wise philosopher." Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my
mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like." Jesus
said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you
have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have
tended." And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three
sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they
asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them,
"If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will
pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the
rocks and devour you."
14. Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin
upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and
if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits. When you
go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when
people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the
sick among them. After all, what goes into your mouth will
not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth
that will defile you."
15. Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman,
fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father."
16. Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to
cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come
to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war. For
there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two
and two against three, father against son and son against
father, and they will stand alone.
17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what
no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not
arisen in the human heart."
18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end
come?" Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that
you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where
the beginning is. Congratulations to the one who stands at
the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste
death."
19. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into
being before coming into being. If you become my disciples
and pay attention to my sayings, these stones will serve
you. For there are five trees in Paradise for you; they do
not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall.
Whoever knows them will not taste death."
20. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what Heaven's
kingdom is like." He said to them, It's like a mustard seed,
the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared
soil, it produces a large plant and becomes a shelter for
birds of the sky.
21. Mary said to Jesus, "What are your disciples like?" He
said, They are like little children living in a field that
is not theirs. when the owners of the field come, they will
say, "Give us back our field." They take off their clothes
in front of them in order to give it back to them, and they
return their field to them. For this reason I say, if the
owners of a house know that a thief is coming, they will be
on guard before the thief arrives and will not let the thief
break into their house (their domain) and steal their
possessions. As for you, then, be on guard against the
world. Prepare yourselves with great strength, so the
robbers can't find a way to get to you, for the trouble you
expect will come. Let there be among you a person who
understands. When the crop ripened, he came quickly carrying
a sickle and harvested it. Anyone here with two good ears
had better listen!
22. Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples,
"These nursing babies are like those who enter the kingdom."
They said to him, "Then shall we enter the kingdom as
babies?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into
one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the
outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when
you make male and female into a single one, so that the male
will not be male nor the female be female, when you make
eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot
in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you
will enter the kingdom."
23. Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one from a thousand and
two from ten thousand, and they will stand as a single one."
24. His disciples said, "Show us the place where you are,
for we must seek it." He said to them, "Anyone here with two
ears had better listen! There is light within a person of
light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not
shine, it is dark."
25. Jesus said, "Love your friends like your own soul,
protect them like the pupil of your eye."
26. Jesus said, "You see the sliver in your friend's eye,
but you don't see the timber in your own eye. When you take
the timber out of your own eye, then you will see well
enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye."
27. "If you do not fast from the world, you will not find
the kingdom. If you do not observe the sabbath as a sabbath
you will not see the Father."
28. Jesus said, "I took my stand in the midst of the world,
and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and
I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the
children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts
and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they
also seek to depart from the world empty. But meanwhile they
are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will
change their ways."
29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of
spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being
because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels. Yet I
marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this
poverty."
30. Jesus said, "Where there are three deities, they are
divine. Where there are two or one, I am with that one."
31. Jesus said, "No prophet is welcome on his home turf;
doctors don't cure those who know them."
32. Jesus said, "A city built on a high hill and fortified
cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."
33. Jesus said, "What you will hear in your ear, in the
other ear proclaim from your rooftops. After all, no one
lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, nor does one put
it in a hidden place. Rather, one puts it on a lampstand so
that all who come and go will see its light."
34. Jesus said, "If a blind person leads a blind person,
both of them will fall into a hole."
35. Jesus said, "One can't enter a strong person's house and
take it by force without tying his hands. Then one can loot
his house."
36. Jesus said, "Do not fret, from morning to evening and
from evening to morning, about your food what you're going
to eat, or about your clothing what you are going to wear.
You're much better than the lilies, which neither card nor
spin. As for you, when you have no garment, what will you
put on? Who might add to your stature? That very one will
give you your garment."
37. His disciples said, "When will you appear to us, and
when will we see you?" Jesus said, "When you strip without
being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them under
your feet like little children and trample them, then you
will see the son of the living one and you will not be
afraid."
38. Jesus said, "Often you have desired to hear these
sayings that I am speaking to you, and you have no one else
from whom to hear them. There will be days when you will
seek me and you will not find me."
39. Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken
the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not
entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do
so. As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."
40. Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the
Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its
root and will perish."
41. Jesus said, "Whoever has something in hand will be given
more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the
little they have."
42. Jesus said, "Be passersby."
43. His disciples said to him, "Who are you to say these
things to us?" "You don't understand who I am from what I
say to you. Rather, you have become like the Judeans, for
they love the tree but hate its fruit, or they love the
fruit but hate the tree."
44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will
be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be
forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit
will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."
45. Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees,
nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they yield no
fruit. Good persons produce good from what they've stored
up; bad persons produce evil from the wickedness they've
stored up in their hearts, and say evil things. For from the
overflow of the heart they produce evil."
46. Jesus said, "From Adam to John the Baptist, among those
born of women, no one is so much greater than John the
Baptist that his eyes should not be averted. But I have said
that whoever among you becomes a child will recognize the
kingdom and will become greater than John."
47. Jesus said, "A person cannot mount two horses or bend
two bows. And a slave cannot serve two masters, otherwise
that slave will honor the one and offend the other. "Nobody
drinks aged wine and immediately wants to drink young wine.
Young wine is not poured into old wineskins, or they might
break, and aged wine is not poured into a new wineskin, or
it might spoil. An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment,
since it would create a tear."
48. Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in a
single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from
here!' and it will move."
49. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who are alone and
chosen, for you will find the kingdom. For you have come
from it, and you will return there again."
50. Jesus said, "If they say to you, 'Where have you come
from?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, from the
place where the light came into being by itself, established
itself, and appeared in their image.' If they say to you,
'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the
chosen of the living Father.' If they ask you, 'What is the
evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion
and rest.'"
51. His disciples said to him, "When will the rest for the
dead take place, and when will the new world come?" He said
to them, "What you are looking forward to has come, but you
don't know it."
52. His disciples said to him, "Twenty-four prophets have
spoken in Israel, and they all spoke of you." He said to
them, "You have disregarded the living one who is in your
presence, and have spoken of the dead."
53. His disciples said to him, "is circumcision useful or
not?" He said to them, "If it were useful, their father
would produce children already circumcised from their
mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become
profitable in every respect."
54. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the poor, for to you
belongs Heaven's kingdom."
55. Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate father and mother
cannot be my disciple, and whoever does not hate brothers
and sisters, and carry the cross as I do, will not be worthy
of me."
56. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has
discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass,
of that person the world is not worthy."
57. Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a person who
has good seed. His enemy came during the night and sowed
weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the
workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, "No, otherwise
you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat
along with them." For on the day of the harvest the weeds
will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned.
58. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the person who has
toiled and has found life."
59. Jesus said, "Look to the living one as long as you live,
otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one,
and you will be unable to see."
60. He saw a Samaritan carrying a lamb and going to Judea.
He said to his disciples, "that person ... around the lamb."
They said to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it." He
said to them, "He will not eat it while it is alive, but
only after he has killed it and it has become a carcass."
They said, "Otherwise he can't do it." He said to them, "So
also with you, seek for yourselves a place for rest, or you
might become a carcass and be eaten."
61. Jesus said, "Two will recline on a couch; one will die,
one will live." Salome said, "Who are you mister? You have
climbed onto my couch and eaten from my table as if you are
from someone." Jesus said to her, "I am the one who comes
from what is whole. I was granted from the things of my
Father." "I am your disciple." "For this reason I say, if
one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is
divided, one will be filled with darkness."
62. Jesus said, "I disclose my mysteries to those who are
worthy of my mysteries. Do not let your left hand know what
your right hand is doing."
63. Jesus said, There was a rich person who had a great deal
of money. He said, "I shall invest my money so that I may
sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouses with produce, that
I may lack nothing." These were the things he was thinking
in his heart, but that very night he died. Anyone here with
two ears had better listen!
64. Jesus said, A person was receiving guests. When he had
prepared the dinner, he sent his slave to invite the guests.
The slave went to the first and said to that one, "My master
invites you." That one said, "Some merchants owe me money;
they are coming to me tonight. I have to go and give them
instructions. Please excuse me from dinner." The slave went
to another and said to that one, "My master has invited
you." That one said to the slave, "I have bought a house,
and I have been called away for a day. I shall have no
time." The slave went to another and said to that one, "My
master invites you." That one said to the slave, "My friend
is to be married, and I am to arrange the banquet. I shall
not be able to come. Please excuse me from dinner." The
slave went to another and said to that one, "My master
invites you." That one said to the slave, "I have bought an
estate, and I am going to collect the rent. I shall not be
able to come. Please excuse me." The slave returned and said
to his master, "Those whom you invited to dinner have asked
to be excused." The master said to his slave, "Go out on the
streets and bring back whomever you find to have dinner."
Buyers and merchants will not enter the places of my Father.
65. He said, A person owned a vineyard and rented it to some
farmers, so they could work it and he could collect its crop
from them. He sent his slave so the farmers would give him
the vineyard's crop. They grabbed him, beat him, and almost
killed him, and the slave returned and told his master. His
master said, "Perhaps he didn't know them." He sent another
slave, and the farmers beat that one as well. Then the
master sent his son and said, "Perhaps they'll show my son
some respect." Because the farmers knew that he was the heir
to the vineyard, they grabbed him and killed him. Anyone
here with two ears had better listen!
66. Jesus said, "Show me the stone that the builders
rejected: that is the keystone."
67. Jesus said, "Those who know all, but are lacking in
themselves, are utterly lacking."
68. Jesus said, "Congratulations to you when you are hated
and persecuted; and no place will be found, wherever you
have been persecuted."
69. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who have been
persecuted in their hearts: they are the ones who have truly
come to know the Father. Congratulations to those who go
hungry, so the stomach of the one in want may be filled."
70. Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what
you have will save you. If you do not have that within you,
what you do not have within you will kill you."
71. Jesus said, "I will destroy this house, and no one will
be able to build it."
72. A person said to him, "Tell my brothers to divide my
father's possessions with me." He said to the person,
"Mister, who made me a divider?" He turned to his disciples
and said to them, "I'm not a divider, am I?"
73. Jesus said, "The crop is huge but the workers are few,
so beg the harvest boss to dispatch workers to the fields."
74. He said, "Lord, there are many around the drinking
trough, but there is nothing in the well."
75. Jesus said, "There are many standing at the door, but
those who are alone will enter the bridal suite."
76. Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a merchant who
had a supply of merchandise and found a peal. That merchant
was prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single
pearl for himself. So also with you, seek his treasure that
is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat
and no worm destroys."
77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I
am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and
you will find me there."
78. Jesus said, "Why have you come out to the countryside?
To see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a person
dressed in soft clothes, [like your] rulers and your
powerful ones? They are dressed in soft clothes, and they
cannot understand truth."
79. A woman in the crowd said to him, "Lucky are the womb
that bore you and the breasts that fed you." He said to her,
"Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and
have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will
say, 'Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the
breasts that have not given milk.'"
80. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has
discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of
that one the world is not worthy."
81. Jesus said, "Let one who has become wealthy reign, and
let one who has power renounce ."
82. Jesus said, "Whoever is near me is near the fire, and
whoever is far from me is far from the kingdom."
83. Jesus said, "Images are visible to people, but the light
within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He
will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light."
84. Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy.
But when you see your images that came into being before you
and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will
have to bear!"
85. Jesus said, "Adam came from great power and great
wealth, but he was not worthy of you. For had he been
worthy, he would not have tasted death."
86. Jesus said, "Foxes have their dens and birds have their
nests, but human beings have no place to lay down and rest."
87. Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a
body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these
two."
88. Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets will come
to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give
them what you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they
come and take what belongs to them?'"
89. Jesus said, "Why do you wash the outside of the cup?
Don't you understand that the one who made the inside is
also the one who made the outside?"
90. Jesus said, "Come to me, for my yoke is comfortable and
my lordship is gentle, and you will find rest for
yourselves."
91. They said to him, "Tell us who you are so that we may
believe in you." He said to them, "You examine the face of
heaven and earth, but you have not come to know the one who
is in your presence, and you do not know how to examine the
present moment.
92. Jesus said, "Seek and you will find. In the past,
however, I did not tell you the things about which you asked
me then. Now I am willing to tell them, but you are not
seeking them."
93. "Don't give what is holy to dogs, for they might throw
them upon the manure pile. Don't throw pearls to pigs, or
they might ... it."
94. Jesus said, "One who seeks will find, and for one who
knocks it will be opened."
95. Jesus said, "If you have money, don't lend it at
interest. Rather, give it to someone from whom you won't get
it back."
96. Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a woman. She
took a little leaven, hid it in dough, and made it into
large loaves of bread. Anyone here with two ears had better
listen!
97. Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a woman who was
carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking along a
distant road, the handle of the jar broke and the meal
spilled behind her along the road. She didn't know it; she
hadn't noticed a problem. When she reached her house, she
put the jar down and discovered that it was empty.
98. Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a person who
wanted to kill someone powerful. While still at home he drew
his sword and thrust it into the wall to find out whether
his hand would go in. Then he killed the powerful one.
99. The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your
mother are standing outside." He said to them, "Those here
who do what my Father wants are my brothers and my mother.
They are the ones who will enter my Father's kingdom."
100. They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "The
Roman emperor's people demand taxes from us." He said to
them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give
God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine."
101. "Whoever does not hate father and mother as I do cannot
be my disciple, and whoever does not love father and mother
as I do cannot be my disciple. For my mother..., but my true
mother gave me life."
102. Jesus said, "Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog
sleeping in the cattle manger: the dog neither eats nor lets
the cattle eat."
103. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who know where
the rebels are going to attack. They can get going, collect
their imperial resources, and be prepared before the rebels
arrive."
104. They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray today, and let
us fast." Jesus said, "What sin have I committed, or how
have I been undone? Rather, when the groom leaves the bridal
suite, then let people fast and pray."
105. Jesus said, "Whoever knows the father and the mother
will be called the child of a whore."
106. Jesus said, "When you make the two into one, you will
become children of Adam, and when you say, 'Mountain, move
from here!' it will move."
107. Jesus said, The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a
hundred sheep. One of them, the largest, went astray. He
left the ninety- nine and looked for the one until he found
it. After he had toiled, he said to the sheep, 'I love you
more than the ninety- nine.'
108. Jesus said, "Whoever drinks from my mouth will become
like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden
things will be revealed to him."
109. Jesus said, The Father's kingdom is like a person who
had a treasure hidden in his field but did not know it. And
when he died he left it to his son. The son [did] not know
about it either. He took over the field and sold it. The
buyer went plowing, discovered the treasure, and began to
lend money at interest to whomever he wished.
110. Jesus said, "Let one who has found the world, and has
become wealthy, renounce the world."
111. Jesus said, "The heavens and the earth will roll up in
your presence, and whoever is living from the living one
will not see death." Does not Jesus say, "Those who have
found themselves, of them the world is not worthy"?
112. Jesus said, "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul.
Damn the soul that depends on the flesh."
113. His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom
come?" "It will not come by watching for it. It will not be
said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's
kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see
it."
114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for
females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide
her to make her male, so that she too may become a living
spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes
herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven."
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