1 These are the esoteric sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Judas Thomas the twin

wrote down.
And he said, "Whoever finds the inner meaning of these sayings shall not taste death."

2.
Jesus said, “The seeker should not stop searching until he finds, and when he finds he will suffer,
and when he suffers he will be astonished and will be king over everything, and having become
king he will find rest.”

3.
Jesus said, “If those who lead you should say to you, ‘Look, the kingdom is in the air,’ then the
birds of the air will be first, coming before you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish of
the sea will be first, coming before you. But the kingdom is within you and outside of you. When
you know yourselves then you will be known and will find it, and you will discover that you are
sons of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves then you are impoverished and you are
poverty.”.

4.
Jesus said, "The old man should not delay in asking a little seven days child about the place of Life,
and then that man will be alive. For the many who are first shall be last, and the last first, and they
shall become a unity."

5.
Jesus said, Recognise what is in front of your face, and what is hidden will be revealed to you. For
there is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed, [and nothing buried that shall not be raised up. ]

6
His students questioned him, they said to him, “Do you want us to fast? How should we pray?
Should we give to the poor? What foods should we eat?”
Jesus said, Do not lie and do not do what you hate, for in the presence of truth all outward things are
revealed. For there is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed, and nothing covered can continue
unless it is exposed.

7.
Jesus said, “Blessed is the lion that the man consumes, and the lion becomes man. And cursed is the
man that the lion consumes, and the lion becomes man.”

8.
And he said, “The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea; then he drew it up
from the sea, full of little fish from below. Among them he found one good large fish. So he threw
all of the little fish back down into the sea without regret. Whoever has ears to listen, let him listen.”

9.
Jesus said, “Look, the sower came out, filled his hand and cast the seed. Some seed fell against the
road; the birds came and gathered them. Others fell onto rock, and did not send roots down to earth
or ears rising up to heaven. And others fell on thorns that choked the seed, and worms ate them. And
some others fell upon good earth and gave good grain up to heaven; it came up sixty and one
hundred and twenty per measure.”

10.
Jesus said, “I have set fire to the earth and, look, I am watching it until it burns.”

11.
Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away and the one above it will pass away. Those who are dead do
not live and those who are living will not die. When you consumed what is dead you made it alive.
When you are in the light, what will you do? When you were a unity, you split into two; now you
are two, what will you do?"

12.
His students said to Jesus, “We know that you will leave us. Which of us will become great?”
Jesus said to them, “Wherever you have come from, go to James the Righteous, for whom heaven
and earth came to be.”

13.
Jesus said, “Compare me to someone, and tell me who I am like.”
Simon Peter said to him, “You are a righteous angel.”
Matthew said to him, “You are a wise philosopher.”
Thomas said to him, “Master, my mouth will not allow me to say what you are.”
Jesus said, “I am not your master; because you drank from the bubbling spring that I have poured
out, you have become intoxicated.”
And he took him, withdrew, and spoke three things to him. When Thomas came back to his
companions they asked him, “What did Jesus say to you?”
He said to them, “If I tell you one of the things he told me, you will take up stones and throw them
at me, and fire will come out of the stones and burn you.”

14.
Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin on yourselves, and if you pray you will be
condemned, and if you give to the poor you will injure your spirits When you go into a country and
walk in its lands, if you are received, then eat whatever they put before you. Heal those among them
who are sick. For what goes into your mouth will not corrupt you, but what comes out of your
mouth will corrupt you."

15.
Jesus said, "When you look upon the one who was not born of woman, throw yourself on your face
and worship him, for he is your father."
16.
Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to bring peace to the world, and they do not
know that I have come to bring division to the earth - fire, a sword, war. For there will be five in a
house; three will be against two and two against three, the father against the son and the son against
the father. And the unified ones will rise up."

17.
Jesus said, “I shall give you what no eye has looked upon and no ear has listened to, what no hand
has touched, and what has not been revealed to the heart of man.”.

18.
His students said to Jesus, “Tell us of our end, how will it be?”
Jesus said, “Have you found the beginning so that you are searching for the end? For the end will be
in the same place as the beginning. Blessed is he who will rise up in the beginning, and he will
know the end, and he will not taste death.”

19.
Jesus said, “Blessed is he who exists from the beginning before he comes to be. If you are my
students and listen to my words, these stones will become your servants. For you have five trees in
Paradise, which do not move in summer or in winter, and their leaves do not fall down. Whoever
knows them will not taste death.”

20.
His students said to Jesus, “Tell us what the kingdom of Heaven is like.”
He said to them, “It is like a mustard seed, which is smaller than all other seeds; but when it falls on
earth that has been worked on, it sends out a great branch which becomes a shelter for the birds of
the air.”

21.
Mary said to Jesus, "What do your students resemble?"
He said, "They are like little children staying in a field which is not theirs. When the lords of the
field come back, they will say, "Give our field back to us." So they will strip naked in their
presence, and they will give the field back to them. Therefore I say, if the Lord of the house realises
that the thief is coming, he will keep watch before he comes, and not allow him to dig from beneath
into the house, which is his kingdom, so that he take his goods. So you must keep watch from the
Beginning of the world. Prepare yourself with great strength, so that the thieves do not discover a
way to get to you. For if you look outwards for help they will discover it. Let a man of
understanding be within you. When the grain split open, he came in a hurry, his sickle in his hand,
and reaped it. Whoever has an ear to listen, let him listen.

22.
Jesus looked at some little ones taking milk. He said to his students, “These little ones taking milk
are like those who go in to the kingdom.”
They said to him, “Then will we, as little ones, go into the kingdom?”
Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inside like the
outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male
and female into a unity, so that the male is not male and the female is not female; when you make
some eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, an image
in place of an image, then you will go in to the kingdom.”

23.
Jesus said, “I will choose you, one out of one thousand and two out of ten thousand, and they will
rise up, becoming a single unity.”

24.
His students said, "Show us the place from which you live, for we need to seek it."
He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him listen. Light exists within a man of light and he
becomes light for the whole world; if he does not become light, he is darkness."

25.
Jesus aid, “Love your brother like your own soul. Watch over him like the pupil of your own eye.”

26.
Jesus said, “You see the splinter in your brother's eye, but you do not see the plank in your own.
When you remove the plank from your own eye, then you will see out so that you can remove the
splinter from your brother's eye.”

27.
Jesus said, If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the Kingdom. If you do not make the
Sabbath into a day of rest you will not look upon your Father."

28.
Jesus said, "I rose up within the world and I appeared outwardly to them in the flesh. I found them
all drunk and I found none of them thirsty, and my soul was pained for the sons of men, for they are
blind in their hearts and do not look outwards. For they came into the world empty, and seek also to
go out of the world empty. But now they are drunk. When they shake off their wine their hearts will
change."

29.
Jesus said, "If the flesh was created because of the spirit, it is a wonder; but if spirit is produced
because of the body it is a wonder of wonders. I myself marvel how this great wealth was placed
within this poverty."
30.
Jesus said, “Where there are three gods they divine. Where there is one alone, I myself am with him
[Split the wood and I am there; pick up the stone and you will find me there.]”

31.
Jesus said, “No prophet is accepted in his own village. No physician heals those who already know
him.”

32.
Jesus said, “A city that has been built on the summit of a high mountain and has been strengthened
cannot fall, but neither can it be hidden.”

33.
Jesus said, “What you hear in your ears, proclaim upon the housetop. For no one lights a lamp and
puts it under a bush, or hides it. Instead, he puts it on the lamp stand, so that whoever goes in and
comes out will look upon its light.”

34.
Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, the two of them will fall down into a pit."

35.
Jesus said, There is no way that anyone can go into the house of a strong man and take him by
force, unless he bind the strong man's hands; then he can remove him from his house.

36.
Jesus said, "Do not care from morning to evening and from evening to morning what food you
should eat or what clothing you will put on yourselves. You are much greater than the lilies that
neither comb wool nor spin it. When you have no clothing, what will you wear? Who can add to the
length of your life? It is he who will give you your clothing."

37.
His students said, “When will you be revealed to us, and when will we look upon you?”
Jesus said, “When you strip yourselves naked without being ashamed, and you take off your
clothing and put it under your feet, like small children, and you trample on it, then you will look
upon the son of the living one and you will not be afraid.”.

38.
Jesus said, “Many times you have wanted to hear these words that I say to you, and you had no one
to hear them from. The days will come when you will search for me and not find me.”

39.
Jesus said, “The Pharisees and the scribes took the keys of knowledge and they hid them; they did
not go into the kingdom and they did not let in those who want to go in. You, however, must be as
wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.

40.
Jesus said, “They planted a vine outside of the father and, since it isn't healthy, it will be pulled up
by the roots and destroyed.”

41.
He who has it in his hand will receive it, and he who does not have it will have it taken from his
hand.

42.
Jesus aid, “Be a passer-by.”

43.
His students said to him, “Who are you that you can say these things to us?”
Jesus said, “You do not recognise what I am by what I say to you. But you have become like the
Judaeans, for they love the tree and hate the fruit, or love the fruit and hate the tree.”

44.
Jesus said, “Whoever blasphemes against the father shall be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes
against the son shall be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit shall not be
forgiven, neither on earth nor in heaven.”

45.
Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they give
no fruit. A man who is good brings something good out of his treasure, a man who is evil brings evil
things out of his treasure, which is wicked and which is in his heart, and so he says evil things; for
from the contents of his heart he brings out evil things."

46.
Jesus said, “From Adam up to John the Baptist, no on born of woman is so raised up above John the
Baptist that he should not lower his eyes. But I have said that whoever among you should become a
little one will know the kingdom, and will be raised up above John.”

47.
Jesus said, “No one can climb on to two horses or stretch two bows; no servant can serve two
masters, for he will honour the one and despise the other. No one drinks old wine and immediately
wants the new. And new wine isn't poured into old skins in case they split open, and so old wine
isn't poured into new skins in case they are destroyed. Old patches are not sewed onto new clothes,
because they will split.”

48.
Jesus said, “If two make peace with each other in the one house, they will say to the mountain,
'move away,' and it will move.”

49.
Jesus said, “Blessed are the single ones and the chosen, for you will find the kingdom. For you
came out of it and you will go in again.”

50 .
Jesus said, “If they ask you, 'Where have you come from?' say to them, 'We have come from the
light, from that place where the light exists in itself. It rose up and revealed utself in their image.'
If they should say to you, 'Are you this light?' say, 'We are its sons and we are the chosen of the
living father.'
If they ask you, 'What is the sign of your father within you?' say to them, 'It is movement and rest.'”

51.
His students said to him, “When will there be rest for the dead? And when is the new world
coming?”
He said to them, “What you are looking out for has already come, but you do not know it.”

52.
His students said to him, “Twenty-four prophets spoke to Israel, and all of them spoke of you.”
He said to them, “You have forgotten the living one who is in your presence, and spoken of the
dead.”

53.
His students said to him, “Is circumcision of benefit to us or not?”
He said to them, “If it were of benefit, their father would have them born from their mother already
circumcised. Rather, it is the true circumcision in spirit that is worth something.”

54.
Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor, for the kingdom of heaven is yours.”

55.
Jesus said, “Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot be a student of mine; and
whoever does not love his brothers and sisters, and take up his cross in my way, will not be worthy
of me.”
56.
Jesus said, "Whoever has understood the world has found a corpse, and the world is not worthy of
someone who has found that corpse.

57.
Jesus said, “The kingdom of the father is like a man who had good seed. His enemy came in the
night and sowed weeds upon the good seed. The man did not permit the weeds to be pulled up. He
explained, 'So that you do not pull up the weeds and pull up the grain along with them.'
On the day of harvest the weeds will appear; then they will be pulled up and burned.”

58.
Jesus said, “Blessed is the one who suffers, for he has found life.”

59.
Jesus said, “Look to the living one while you are alive, in case you ddie and search for him and
cannot find the strength.”

60.
They saw a Samaritan taking a lamb to Judea. He said to his studnets, “Why is he carrying around a
lamb?”
They said to him, “So that he might kill it and eat it.”
He said to them, “While it is living he will not eat it, only if he should kill it and it becomes a
corpse?”
They said to him, “He cannot do it any other way.”
He said to them, “You must also search for a place of rest within yourselves, so that you do not
become corpses and get eaten.”

61.
Jesus said, “Two will rest on a couch. One will die, one will live.”
Salome said, “Who are you, man, that as if you come from unity, you climbed on my couch and ate
off my table?”
Jesus said to her, “I am the one who lives from unity. I received that which is my father’s.”
She said, “I am your student.”
Jesus said, “Because of this I say, ‘Whoever is unified will be full of light; whoever is divided is full
of darkness.’”

62.
Jesus said, “I tell my mysteries to those who are worhty of my mysteries. Do not let your left hand
know what your right hand will do.”
63.
Jesus said, “There was a rich man who certainly had many riches. He said, 'I will make use of my
riches so that I might sow and reap and plant, and fill my treasury with grain, so that I will not need
anything.' Those were the thoughts he had in his heart, and in that night he died. Whoever has ears,
let him listen.”

64.
Jesus said, "A man was receiving some guests and when the dinner was ready he sent his servant to
invite the guests. The servant went to the first and said, 'My lord is calling you.' He said, 'I have
some money for some merchants; they are coming to me this evening, I shall have to go and give
them their orders; I ask to be let off the dinner.' He went to another one and said to him, 'My lord is
calling for you.' He said, 'I have bought a house and I am needed for the day. I shall not be able to
rest.' He went to another one and said to him, 'My lord has called for you.' He said, 'My friend is
getting married and I am making the dinner. I cannot come. I ask to be let off your dinner.' He went
to another and said, 'My lord is calling for you.' He said, 'I have bought a farm; I am going to collect
the rent. I cannot come. I ask to be let off.' The servant came and spoke to his lord. 'Those that you
have called to the dinner have asked to be let off.' The lord said to his servant, 'Go outside, go to the
way and bring whoever you may find there, so that they may dine. Buyers and merchants may not
go in to the places of my father.'"

65.
He said, “A just man had a vineyard; he gave it to some tenants so that they might work on it and he
might receive its fruit from them. Later he sent his servant so that the tenants might give hi the fruit
of the vineyard. They grabbed his servant and beat him. If they had continued they would have
killed him. The servant went and said to his lord, 'Perhaps they did not know me.' He sent another
servant; the tenants beat the other one. Then the lord sent his son. Those tenants seized him because
they knew that he was the heir to the vineyard. They killed him. Whoever has an ear, let him listen.”

66.
Jesus said, Show me the stone that the builders have rejected; it is the foundation stone.”

67.
Jesus said, “Whoever knows everything but lacks himself, lacks a place within himself.”

68.
Jesus said, "You are blessed when you are hated and persecuted, and you are not found within the
place where you are persecuted."

69.
Jesus said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted in their hearts; they have known the father in
truth. Blessed are those who are hungry, so that their bellies can be satisfied.”

70.
Jesus said, "When you bring to birth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not have it
within you, what you do not have will kill you."

71.
Jesus said, “I shall destroy this house, and no one will be able to build it again.”

72.
A man said to him, “Speak to my brothers so that they will divide my father's belongings with me.”
He said to him, “Man, who made me into a divider?”
He turned to his students and said, “Really, am I a divider?”

73.
Jesus said, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the workers are few. So pray to the lord that he
might send out workers to the harvest.”

74.

He said, “Lord, many are around the fountain, but nothing is in the well.”

75.
Jesus said, “There are many standing at the door. But the single ones will go into the bridal
chamber.”

76.
Jesus said, “The kingdom of the father is like a merchant with a consignment. He found a pearl. He
was a wise merchant, so he gave the goods back and bought that single pearl for himself. You
yourselves must search for the enduring treasure that does not perish, in that place where moths do
not consume nor worms destroy.”

77.
Jesus said, “I am the light that is above everything. I am everything, everything has come out of me
and split itself open to me. Split the wood and I am there; pick up the stone and you will find me
there.”

78.
Jesus said, “Why did you come out to the field? To see a reed moved by the wind? And to see a man
with soft clothing on him, like your kings and your powerful men? They wore sift garments, and yet
they cannot know the truth.”
79.
A woman in the crowd said, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and blessed are the breasts that fed
you.”
He said to her, “Blessed are those who have listened to the words of the father and watched over
him in truth. For the days will come when you will say, ‘Blessed is the womb that hasn’t conceived,
and blessed are the breasts that haven’t given any milk.’”

80.
Jesus said, “Whoever has understood the world has found a carcass, and the world is not worthy of
someone who has found that carcass.”

81.
Jesus said, “Let him who is wealthy become king; let him who has power abdicate.”

82.
Jesus said, “Whoever is close to me is near to the fire, and whoever is far from me is far from the
kingdom.”

83.
Jesus said, “The images are revealed to man, and the light within them is hidden in the image of the
light of the father. He will be revealed, and his image hidden because of his light.”

84.
Jesus said, “When you look upon your likeness you are happy. When, however, you look upon your
images, which came to be from the beginning, which neither die, nor are they yet revealed, how
much will you bear?”

85.
Jesus said, “Adam came from a great power and great wealth, yet he was not worthy of you; for had
he been worthy he would not have tasted death.”

86.
Jesus said, “Foxes have their dens and birds have their nests, but the son of man has no place to lay
his head and rest.”

87.
Jesus said, “Wretched is the body that depends on a body, and wretched is the soul that depends on
these two.”

88.
Jesus said, “The angels and the prophets will come to you and give you what you have. And you
will give to them, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what is theirs?'”

89.
Jesus said, “Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Don't you understand that the one who
created the inside also created the outside?”

90.
Jesus said, “Come to me, for my yoke is fair and my lordship gentle, and you will find rest for
yourselves.”

91.
They said to him, “Tell us who you are, so that we may believe in you.”
He said to them, “You read the face of heaven and the earth, yet you did not know who was in your
presence, and you do not know how to read this moment.”

92.
Jesus said, “Search and you will find. Previously I didn't tell you those things that you were asking
me about. Now that I want to tell them to you, you do not search for them.”

93.
Jesus said, “Do not give what is holy to the dogs, so that they do not throw it on the dung heap, and
do not throw pearls before swine, in case they trample on them.”

94.
Jesus said, “Whoever searches will find, and whoever calls within will have it opened to him.”

95.
Jesus said, “If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to him from whom you will not
get it back.”

96.
Jesus said, “The kingdom of the father is like a woman who took some yeast and hid it in dough;
she made it into some large loaves of bread. Whoever has an ear, let him listen.”

97.
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a woman carrying a jar full of flour. As she was
walking on the road faraway, the handle of the jar broke; flour emptied out behind her on the road.
She did not know, and she did not understand what she was suffering. When she went into her
house, she put down the jar and found it empty."
98.
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like someone who wanted to kill a powerful man. He drew
his sword in his own house and stuck it into the wall, so that he could see that his hand would be
strong within. Then he slew the powerful man."

99.
His students said to him, “Your brothers and your mother are standing outside.”
He said to them, “Those here who do the will of my father, these are my brothers and my mother; it
is they who will go into the kingdom of my father.”

100.
They showed him a gold piece and said to him, “Those who come from Caesar demand taxes from
us.”
He said to them, “Give the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God, and give me
what is mine.”

101.
Jesus said, “Whoever does not hate his father and his mother in my way cannot be my student; and
whoever does not love his father and mother in my way cannot be my student. For my mother gave
birth to me, but my [true] mother gave me life.”

102.
Jesus said, “Woe to the Pharisees; for they are like a dog sleeping in the manger of some oxen; for
he will not eat nor will he let the oxen eat.”

103.
Jesus said, “Blessed is the man who knows where the thieves will come in, so that he might rise up
and prepare himself from the beginning, before they enter.”

104.
They said to Jesus, “Come, let us pray and fast today.”
Jesus said, “What sin have I committed, or how have I been defeated? But when the bridegroom
comes out of the bridal chamber, then let them fast and let them pray.”

105.
Jesus said, "Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the son of a whore."

106.
Jesus said, “When you make the two into one, you will become the sons of man, and if you should
say, ‘mountain, move away,’ it will move.”
107.
Jesus said, “The kingdom is like a man who was a shepherd; he had one hundred sheep. One of
them got lost—it was the largest. He left the ninety-nine and searched for the one until he found it.
Having suffered, he said to the sheep, 'I love you more than the ninety-nine.”

108.
Jesus said, “Whoever drinks from my mouth will be like me. I myself will become him, and what
was hidden will be revealed to him.”

109.
Jesus said, “The kingdom is like a man who had a hidden treasure in his field and didn't know about
it. And after he died he left it to his son. The son did not know. He gave away the field. And the one
who bought it went ploughing and found the treasure. He began to lend money and interest to those
whom he loves.”

110.
Jesus said, “Whoever has found the world and become rich, let him abdicate from the world.”

111.
Jesus said, “The heavens and the earth will be rolled up in your presence, and whoever lives from
the living one will not look upon death.”
For Jesus says, “Whoever finds himself, the world is not worthy of him.”

112.
Jesus said, “Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul. Woe to the soul that depends on the flesh.”

113.
His students said to him, “When is the kingdom going to come?
Jesus said, “It will not come by looking out for it, not by saying, 'Look, this way,' or 'Look, that
way.' Rather, the kingdom of the father is already spread out on the earth, and no one sees it.”

114.
Simon Peter said to them, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life."
Jesus said, "Look, I myself will lead her, so that I may make her male and she might also become a
living spirit like you males. For any woman who makes herself male will go into the kingdom."