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Agrapha (Sayings of Jesus outside the Gospels)

Jesus of Nazareth

A collection of Jesus's "unwritten" words transmitted outside the four gospels, such as "it is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). M. R. James gathered them in 1924 with their sources; later research, from Jeremias onwards, has debated which may go back to the historical Jesus.