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Chapter 2  
     
1.
 The disciples said to Jesus, We know that You will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?
  
2.
 Jesus said to them, Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being.
  
3.
 Jesus said to His disciples, Compare me to someone and tell Me whom I am like.
  
4.
 Simon Peter said to Him, You are like a righteous angel.
  
5.
 Matthew said to Him, You are like a wise philosopher.
  
6.
 Thomas said to Him, Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom You are like.
  
7.
 Jesus said, I am not your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated by the bubbling spring which I have measured out.
  
8.
 And He took him and withdrew and told him three things.
 
9.
 When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him, What did Jesus say to you?
  
10.
 Thomas said to them, If I tell you one of the things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up.
  
11.
 Jesus said to them, If you fast, you will give rise to sin for yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you will do harm to your spirits.
 
12.
 When you go into any land and walk about in the districts, if they receive you, eat what they will set before you, and heal the sick among them.
  
13.
 For what goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that which issues from your mouth - it is that which will defile you.
  
14.
 Jesus said, When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves on your faces and worship him. That one is your Father.
  
15.
 Jesus said, Men think, perhaps, that it is peace which I have come to cast upon the world.
 
16.
 They do not know that it is dissension which I have come to cast upon the earth: fire, sword, and war.
 
17.
 For there will be five in a house: three will be against two, and two against three, the father against the son, and the son against the father.
 
18.
 And in the end they will stand solitary.
  
19.
 Jesus said, I shall give you a vision of what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind.
  

 
 
 

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