Visitor Comments
Comfort promotes wilful ignorance.
- Rodney
We are called to the wilderness to rid ourselves of worldly distractions. Then we can begin the arduous process of examining, training, and purifying our own mind.
- Zooie
Jesus himself wore some fancy theads. According to, I think Matthew, the Romans cast lots for his garment that was woven to fit without seams making it something special to be prized.
- T Moran
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Scholarly Quotes
F. F. Bruce writes: "In the canonical tradition similar words are spoken with reference to John the Baptist (Luke 7.24 f.; Matthew 11.7 f.). Here the reference to John is lost (see Saying 46) and the saying serves to point to a contrast between being well-to-do and knowing the truth." (Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament, p. 143)
Gerd Ludemann writes: "This verse addresses the readers and calls for asceticism. Only those who do not wear soft clothing will recognize the truth." (Jesus After 2000 Years, p. 629)
R. McL. Wilson writes: "Kings and MEGISTANES are mentioned together in Revelation vi. 15, one of the three passages only in the New Testament where the latter word is used. The variation in the position of the verb 'to see,' which in the Synoptic parallels is included in the question, is easily explained; commentators have often noted that the Greek text here can be punctuated in two different ways. This brings us to a point which may be of some significance. The Bohairic and Sahidic versions, both in Matthew and in Luke, agree against Thomas in placing the stop after the verb, which shows that at this point at least they and Thomas present independent translations. Such a variation, however, is possible only on the basis of a written ancient document in which, as was usual in ancient manuscripts, there were no marks of punctuation; if the words were spoken the division of the sentences would be made clear. We have thus two different interpretations of the same Greek text. It may be that the ambiguitiy can be traced still further back, but this is a question to be decided by specialists in another field. If the ambiguity exists only in the Greek, Thomas in this saying must have drawn either on our Gospels or on a parallel Greek text. In the latter case we may have an extract from the Gospel according to the Hebrews, but this document is something of an unknown quantity." (Studies in the Gospel of Thomas, pp. 63-64)
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