The Gospel according to Thomas (Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2)
A collection of sayings attributed to Jesus, with no narrative of his life or death. It is cited here from the Coptic copy in Nag Hammadi Codex II.
See the object at gospels.net ↗Codex II, pages 32 and 111, where the text begins (Claremont Colleges Digital Library) ↗Codex II, pages 90 and 51, with the title at the end of the text (Claremont Colleges Digital Library) ↗
The text gives its title at the end, “The Gospel according to Thomas”, and opens by calling itself the hidden sayings of the living Jesus, written down by Didymos Judas Thomas. What follows is a series of sayings, most of them introduced by “Jesus said”, which modern editors number from 1 to 114. Some are close to sayings in Matthew, Mark and Luke; others have no parallel there.
The translator’s page on the manuscripts lists the Nag Hammadi copy as a papyrus codex of the fourth or fifth century, and names Greek papyri from Oxyrhynchus that preserve related sayings. When and where the collection was first put together, and how it is related to the canonical Gospels, are disputed among scholars. See the Nag Hammadi Library Is Found.
Cited in
- about December 1945, estimated date