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The Gospel of Thomas

Jesus of Nazareth

The most important of the apocryphal gospels. With no narrative, miracles or passion, it presents Jesus as a teacher of wisdom whose "secret sayings" give life to whoever finds their interpretation. Nearly half its sayings have parallels in the Synoptics (the mustard seed, the sower, the lamp under the bushel); others are its own and mystical in tone: the kingdom "is inside you and outside you", "is spread out upon the earth and people do not see it". Its discovery revived the debate on the Q source and the diversity of early Christianity.