The Gospel of Thomas is a list of sayings of Jesus that many scholars believe predate the canonical gospels. At first, Thomas was deemed a gnostic gospel, but many modern scholars find that a bit simplistic. It does have many sayings which have a gnostic feel to them, but it also has saying with a more orthodox feel. Both Luke and John contain a few gnostic-sounding sayings too. It's not clear why Thomas was not included in the New Testament Canon. As a list of sayings with no explanation and no narrative structure, perhaps it was just too difficult a text. Perhaps it didn't support the existing Church structure enough for them to want to include it. (It seems to refer to "James the Just" as Jesus's "successor" and not Peter.) Perhaps it was too gnostic. Still I think it's very neat that a list of (probably authentic) sayings of Jesus is available outside the NT. We get to hear some things the Church Fathers didn't like. So, I propose to go through Thomas saying-by-saying just for the fun of it.
I will be using the Patterson-Meyer translation. This and other translations are available here.
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