What is the gospel of Thomas?
Answered from the commentary of The Bible Treasury
The Gospel of Thomas is simply a collection of sayings attributed to the Saviour, not an account of the matters established or believed among Christians.
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What the commentators say
The passages the answer is drawn from, the most direct first, with the words that bear on the question marked.
It does not pretend to be such "narrations" as Luke refers to in his chap. 1:1, though they were but human and therefore without divine authority, even if authentic in the main and ever so well meant. It gives no account concerning those matters which have been fully established, or believed, among Christians. It is simply a collection of sayings attributed to the Saviour.
θa, θb, θc, θd, θe Fragments of the Gospels.
Λ Tischendorf III. Luke and John. (Oxford.) Century viii or ix.
Verses
- John 21:25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books written.
- Mark 1:1Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;