Saying 36: Do Not Worry About Clothing
Do not fret from morning to evening and evening to morning about what you will wear.
Commentary
The Coptic gives one line; the older Greek fragment gives a much longer version with the lilies of the field. This is the clearest evidence that the Coptic Thomas abbreviates its own earlier Greek text.
Parallels
Matthew 6:25–34; Luke 12:22–31; Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 655
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