Gospel of Thomas: sayings on Unity of opposites
Every saying in the collection that turns on unity of opposites, in the order they appear in the text.
- All 114
- Discipleship 25
- Controversy and division 25
- Self-knowledge 19
- Asceticism and the world 19
- The kingdom 18
- Parables 16
- Unity of opposites 15
- Wealth and poverty 14
- Secrecy and hidden things 14
- Death and immortality 11
- Light and darkness 9
- Solitude 8
- Women in Thomas 6
- Beatitudes 5
- Saying 4 Saying 4: The Old Man and the Infant An old man will not hesitate to ask a seven-day-old infant about the place of life, and will live; many who are first will become last, and they will become one.
- Saying 7 Saying 7: The Lion and the Human Blessed is the lion eaten by a human, for the lion becomes human; cursed is the human eaten by a lion, for the lion becomes human.
- Saying 11 Saying 11: This Heaven Will Pass Away This heaven and the one above it will pass away; the dead are not alive and the living will not die. When you were one you became two — so what will you do now that you are two?
- Saying 22 Saying 22: Making the Two Into One Nursing infants are like those who enter the kingdom. When you make the two one, the inside like the outside, the male and female a single one, an eye in place of an eye and an image in place of an image, then you will enter.
- Saying 29 Saying 29: Spirit Dwelling in Poverty If flesh came into being because of spirit that is a marvel; if spirit because of the body, a marvel of marvels. But I marvel at how such great wealth has come to live in such poverty.
- Saying 47 Saying 47: Two Horses, Two Masters, New Wine No one rides two horses or draws two bows; no servant serves two masters. Nobody drinks old wine and immediately wants new; new wine is not put in old skins, and an old patch is not sewn on a new coat.
- Saying 48 Saying 48: Two Making Peace Move a Mountain If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will tell the mountain to move and it will move.
- Saying 61 Saying 61: Salome and the Undivided Two will rest on a couch; one will die, one will live. Salome asks who he is to climb on her couch and eat from her table; he says he comes from the one who is undivided. Whoever is undivided will be full of light, and whoever is divided will be full of darkness.
- Saying 72 Saying 72: Who Made Me a Divider? A man asks Jesus to make his brothers share their inheritance with him; Jesus asks who made him a divider, and turns to the disciples: am I really a divider?
- Saying 77 Saying 77: Split a Piece of Wood I am the light over all things; I am the All. Everything came out from me and everything reaches me. Split a piece of wood and I am there; lift up a stone and you will find me there.
- Saying 89 Saying 89: Washing the Outside of the Cup Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not understand that whoever made the inside also made the outside?
- Saying 106 Saying 106: When You Make the Two Into One When you make the two into one you will become children of Adam, and when you say "mountain, move from here", it will move.
- Saying 108 Saying 108: Whoever Drinks From My Mouth Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me, and I will become that person, and what is hidden will be revealed to them.
- Saying 112 Saying 112: Woe to the Flesh and the Soul How wretched is the flesh that depends on the soul; how wretched is the soul that depends on the flesh.
- Saying 114 Saying 114: Simon Peter and Mary Simon Peter says Mary should leave, because women are not worthy of life. Jesus answers that he will guide her so that she becomes male, since every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.