Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?11
Yeshua said,
Do not lie and do not do what you hate.12
All things are disclosed before heaven.
There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed,
nothing covered that will remain undisclosed.
(7) Yeshua said,
Blessings on the lion if a human eats it, making the lion human.
Foul is the human if a lion eats it, making the lion human.13
(8) And he said,
Humankind is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea
and drew it up from the sea full of little fish.
Among the fish he found a fine large fish.
He threw all the little fish back into the sea
and easily cbose the large fish.
Whoever has ears to hear should hear.
(9) Yeshua said,
Look, the sower went out, took a handful of seeds,
and scattered them.
Some fell on the road
and the birds came and pecked them up.
Others fell on rock
and they did not take root in the soil
and did not produce heads of grain.
Others fell on thorns
and they choked the seeds
and worms devoured them.
And others fell on good soil
and it brought forth a good crop,
yielding sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure.
(10) Yeshua said,
I have thrown fire upon the world, and look, I am watching till it blazes.
(n) Yeshua said,
This heaven will pass away
and the one above it will pass away.
The dead are not alive
and the living will not die.
During the days when you ate what is dead
you made it alive.
When you are in the light, what will you do?
On the day when you were one
you became two.
But when you become two, what will you do?14
(12) The students said to Yeshua,
We know you will leave us. Who will be our leader?
Yeshua said to them,
Wherever you are, seek out Yaakov the just.15
For his sake heaven and earth came into being.
(13) Yeshua said to his students,
Compare me to something and tell me what I am like.
Shimon Kefa16 said to him,
You are like a just messenger.

11. These questions seem to be answered in saving 14.
12. This is the negative formulation of the golden rule.
13. This obscure saying seems to appeal to the lion as a symbol of all that is passionate and bes­tial: the passions may either be consumed by a person or consume a person. The Secret Book of John portrays Yaldabaoth, the ruler of this world, as lionlike in appearance. On the saying in general, see Jackson, The Lion Becomes Man.
14. This saying consists of four riddles about life in this world and beyond. A different phrasing of the third riddle appears in the Naassene Sermon, in Hippolytus of Rome, Refutation of All Heresies 5.8.32: If you ate dead things and made them living, what will you do if you eat living things?"
!5. Yaakov the just (or the righteous) is James the just, the brother of Jesus and the leader of the church in Jerusalem until his death in 62 CE. He was given his nickname because of his reputation for piety and Torah observance. On James the just in Jerusalem, see the conclusion to the Secret Book of James.
16. Simon Peter.