12. "Today you eat dead things and make them into something living: [but] when you will be in Light, what will you do then? For then you will become two instead of one; and when you become two what will you do then?"
13. The disciples say to Jesus : "We know that Thou wilt leave us: who will [then] be the great
14. Jesus says to his disciples : "Compare me, and tell me whom I am like." Simon Peter says to him : "Thou art like a just angel!" Matthew says to him : "Thou art like a wise man and a philosopher!" Thomas says to him : "Master, my tongue cannot find words to say whom thou art like." Jesus says : "I am no longer they master; for thou hast drunk, thou art inebriated from the bubbling spring which is mine and which I sent forth." Then he took him aside; he said three words to him. And when Thomas came back to his companions, they asked him : "What did Jesus say to thee?" And Thomas answered them : "If I tell you [a single] one of the words he said to me, you will take up stones and throw them at me, and fire will come out of the stones and consume you!"
15. Jesus says to them: "When you fast, you will beget sin for yourselves; when you pray, you will be condemned; when you give alms, you will do evil to your souls! [but] when you enter any land and travel over the country, when you are welcomed eat what is put before you; those who are ill in those places, heal them. For what enters into your mouth will not defile you, but what comes out of your mouth, it is that which will defile you!"
16. Jesus says : "When you see Him who has not been born of woman, bow down face to the earth and adore Him: He is your father!"
17. Jesus says : "Men indeed think I have come to bring peace to the world. But they do not know that I have come to bring to the world discord, fire, sword, war. Indeed, if there are five [people] in a house, they will become three against two and two against three -- father against son and son against father -- and they will be lifted up, being solitaries."
18. Jesus says : "I will give you what eye has never seen, and what ear has never heard, and what hand has never touched, and what has never entered into the heart of man."
19. The disciples say to Jesus : "Tell us what our end will be." Jesus says : "Have you then deciphered the beginning, that you ask about the end? For where the beginning is, there shall be the end. Blessed is the man who reaches the beginning; he will know the end, and will not taste death!"
20. Jesus says : "Blessed is the man who existed before he came into being!"
21. "If you become my disciples and if you hear my words, these stones will serve you."
22. "For you have there, in Paradise, five trees which change not winter nor summer, whose leaves do not fall: whoever knows them will not taste death!"
23. The disciples say to Jesus : "Tell us what the Kingdom of heaven is like!" He says to them: "It is like a grain of mustard: it is smaller than all the [other] seeds, but when it falls on ploughed land it produces a big stalk and becomes a shelter for the birds of heaven."
24. Mary says to Jesus : "Who are your disciples like?" He says to her : "They are like little children who have made their way into a field that does not belong to them. When the owners of the field come, they will say : 'Get out of our field!' They [then] will give up the field to these [people] and let them have their field back again."
25. "That is why I tell you this: If the master of the house knows that the thief is coming, he will watch before he comes and will not allow him to force an entry into his royal house to carry off its furniture. You, then, be on the watch against the world. Gird your loins with great energy, so that the brigands do not find any way of reaching you; for they will find any place you fail to watch."
NOTES: there was a lengthy explanation of the terms solitary and the reference to being two; I'll have to address it in the next installment
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I'd love to see the explanation about being solitary. Some people think the word "monakhos" refers to being alone in terms of celibacy, while others think it means something more like standing alone in one's truth. In the end we all stand alone.
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