These Are the Words of the Secret: The Gospel of Thomas revealed

The Gospel of Thomas is a non -canonicalgospel written in the Coptic language and discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 along with other early Christian and Gnostic texts. It was found by a local farmer among thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar. Unlike the four Gospels of the New Testament, it is not a narrative but a series of 114 logia, or sayings, attributed to Jesus. Scholars date its composition as early as 60 A.D., thus perhaps predating the canonical Gospels. Below are the prologue to the Gospel of Thomas as well as its first two logia, along with commentary by their translator, Jean-Yves Leloup.