Matai17 said to him,
You are like a wise philosopher.
Toma18 said to him,
Rabbi,19 my mouth is utterly unable to say
what you are like.

Yeshua said,
I am not your rabbi.
Because you have drunk, you are intoxicated
from the bubbling spring I tended.20
And he took him and withdrew, and spoke three sayings21 to him.
When Toma came back to his friends, they asked him,
What did Yeshua say to you?

Toma said to them,
If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me,
you will pick up rocks and stone me22
and fire will come out of the rocks and consume you.

(14) Yeshua said to them,
If you fast you will bring sin upon yourselves,
and if you pray you will be condemned,
and if you give to charity you will harm your spirits.23
When you go into any region and walk through the countryside,
and people receive you, eat what they serve you
and heal the sick among them.
What goes into your mouth will not defile you,
but what comes out of your mouth will defile you.

(15) Yeshua said,
When you see one not born of woman,
fall on your faces and worship.
That is your father.

(16) Yeshua said,
People may think I have come to impose peace upon the world.
They do not know that I have come to impose conflicts upon the earth:
fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house. There will be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone.

(17) Yeshua said,
I shall give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,
what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart.24

(18) The students said to Yeshua,
Tell us how our end will be.

Yeshua said,
Have you discovered the beginning and now are seeking the end?
Where the beginning is, the end will be.
Blessings on you who stand at the beginning.
You will know the end and not taste death.

(19) Yeshua said,
Blessings on you who came into being
before coming into being.
If you become my students and hear my sayings,
these stones will serve you.
For there are five trees in paradise for you.
Summer or winter they do not change
and their leaves do not fall.
Whoever knows them will not taste death.25

17. Matthew.
18. Thomas.
19. Or, "Teacher" (Coptic sah).
20. Jesus is the enlightened bartender who serves up wisdom. In general this saying resembles saying 108.
21. Or "three words" (Coptic enshomt enshaje). These three sayings or three words are not re­ported; the reader must discover the interpretation. On three such words, see also Kaulakau, Saulasau, Zeesar in the Naassene Sermon.
22. Within Judaism stoning was the punishment for blasphemy.
23. These statements seem to be answers to the questions in saying 6.
24. Paul may cite this saying in 1 Corinthians 2:9 as a wisdom saying in use among enthusiasts in Corinth.
25. The five trees of paradise are also discussed in Manichaean texts and in the Islamic Mother of Books.