In 1648, preacher John Elliott was quoted in Thomas Shepherd's book " Clear Sunshine of the Gospel " with an account of the difficulties the Pilgrims were having in using the Indians to harvest cranberries as they preferred to hunt and fish.

Gospel of Thomas, usually dated to the late 1st or early 2nd century, was also among the finds in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945.

When the Gospel of Thomas was written, people commonly assumed that men were superior to women, an attitude consistent with the historical context.

The Nag Hammadi codices contain the only complete copy of the Gospel of Thomas.

In fact, Nazareth was described negatively by the evangelists ; the Gospel of Mark argues that Nazareth did not believe in Jesus and therefore he could " do no mighty work there "; in the Gospel of Luke, the Nazarenes are portrayed as attempting to kill Jesus by throwing him off a cliff ; in the Gospel of Thomas, and in all four canonical gospels, we read the famous saying that " a prophet is not without honor except in his own country.

A version of this parable also appears in the non canonical Gospel of Thomas 76.

A version of the parable also appears in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas ( Saying 76 ):

However, the mention of a treasure in Saying 76 may reflect a source for the Gospel of Thomas in which the parables were adjacent, so that the original pair of parables has been " broken apart, placed in separate contexts, and expanded in a manner characteristic of folklore.

In the Gnostic Acts of Peter and the Twelve, found with the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi library, the travelling pearl merchant Lithargoel is eventually revealed to be Jesus.

Thus, " All-In-God " ( see pantheism ) as stated in one of the Sayings of Gospel of Thomas: " Lift Up A Stone And You Will Find Me There ..." This seemingly contradictory interpretation of Gnosticism's theology is not without controversy.

* Saint Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, is believed to have landed in Kodungallur, India to preach the Gospel ; the Marthoma Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the Indian Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East claim descent from him.

** Gospel of Thomas,

The leaves of this oak door represent Christ and Saint Thomas, and repeat the words of the Gospel according to Saint John " Lay your finger here " " You are my Lord and my God " ().

* 1697-To evangelize the English colonies, Thomas Bray, an Anglican preacher who made several missionary trips to North America, begins laying the groundwork for what will be the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

These include the apocryphal gospels, such as the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

The Gospel According to Thomas, commonly shortened to the Gospel of Thomas, is a well preserved early Christian, non-canonical sayings-gospel which many scholars believe provides insight into the Christian Oral Tradition.

The Gospel of Thomas was found among a collection of fifty-two writings that included, in addition to an excerpt from Plato's Republic, gospels claiming to have been written by Jesus's disciple Philip.

It is important to note, however, that while the Gospel of Thomas does not directly point to Jesus ' divinity, it also does not directly contradict it, and therefore neither supports nor contradicts gnostic beliefs.

For example, his engraving of The Last Supper of 1523 has often been understood to have an evangelical theme, focussing as it does on Christ espousing the Gospel, as well the inclusion of the Eucharistic cup, an expression of Protestant utraquism, although this interpretation has been questioned.

Biblically this does not match three of the Gospel accounts ( Matthew, Luke, and John ) which specifically state the tomb was new and no one had ever been laid inside.

The harmony does not include Jesus ' encounter with the adulteress ( John 7: 53 – 8: 11 ), a passage that is generally considered to be a spurious late addition to the Gospel of John, with the Diatessaron itself often used as an early textual witness to support this.

The Gospel According to Mark does not name its author.

The Gospel of Matthew does not name its author.

Papias does not identify his Matthew, but by the end of the 2nd century the tradition of Matthew the tax-collector had become widely accepted, and the line " The Gospel According to Matthew " began to be added to manuscripts.

Paul defended the encyclical, saying “ It does not surprise the Church that she becomes, like her divine Founder, a ‘ sign of contradiction ’; yet she does not, because of this, cease to proclaim with humble firmness the entire moral law, both the natural law and the law of the Gospel.

All four canonical Gospels record John the Baptist's ministry, as does the non-canonical Gospel of the Hebrews.

The Gospel of John does not record the baptism directly, but only by John's description afterward ( John 1: 32-33 ).

However, the Gospel of Mark in Papyrus 45, Codex Washingtonianus and in Family 13 does indeed reflect a distinct type of text.

In his Comment on the Gospel of Matthew, which stems from a 6th century Latin translation, it is written: " In this place Jesus said Elijah was come and referred to John the Baptist it does not appear to me that by Elijah the soul is spoken of, lest I fall into the doctrine of transmigration, which is foreign to the Church of God, and not handed down by the apostles, nor anywhere set forth in the scriptures " ( ibid., 13: 1: 46 – 53 ).

The Gospel of John does not include this episode, but tells of Jesus washing the feet of the Apostles, giving the new commandment " to love one another as I have loved you ", and has a detailed farewell discourse by Jesus, calling the Apostles who follow his teachings " friends and not servants ", as he prepares them for his departure.

1 John does not give direct information about its author, but it was considered apostolic, alongside the Gospel of John.

The Gospel does not make that attribution.

In the Byzantine (" Greek ") liturgical traditions, the Gospel reading for Zacchaeus remains in the normal lectionary cycle and does not always fall on the fifth Sunday before Lent.

Tertullian does not say how the Gospel came to Britain before AD 222.

The Gospel of Thomas does not list the canonical twelve apostles and it does not use either this expression or the terms " the twelve " or " the twelve disciples.

" Unlike previous cinematic depictions of Jesus ' life, Pasolini's film does not embellish the biblical account with any literary or dramatic inventions, nor does it present an amalgam of the four Gospels ( subsequent films which would adhere as closely as possible to one Gospel account are 1979's Jesus, based on the Gospel of Luke, and 2003's The Gospel of John ).

Many believe " the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles originally constituted a two-volume work ", which scholars refer to as Luke-Acts.

According to the Gospel of Mary, they may refer to " the seven powers of wrath " spoken of in 8: 18-19:

The Gospel According to St. Matthew may refer to:

The three Synoptic Gospels refer to a man called Simon of Cyrene who is made to carry the cross (,, ), while in the Gospel of John () Jesus is made to carry His own cross.

Catholics may also refer to Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 24, Verse 36, in which Christ is quoted as saying:

The Nativity appears in chapters 1 and 2 of the Gospel of Matthew in which Matthew places special emphasis on the origins of the names of the child and two specific passages, namely from 1: 21-23, have theological significance in that they refer to the names Jesus and Emmanuel.

When the King James Version was written, the translators used an anglicised version — Calvary — of the Latin gloss from the Vulgate ( Calvariæ ), to refer to Golgotha in the Gospel of Luke, rather than translate it ; subsequent uses of Calvary stem from this single translation decision.

Ephraim in the wilderness is a phrase used in the New Testament Gospel of John () used to refer to a town.

Papias ( circa AD 125 ) refers to a story of Jesus and a woman " accused of many sins " as being found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, which may well refer to this passage ; there is a very certain quotation of the pericope adulterae in the 3rd Century Syriac Didascalia Apostolorum ; though without indicating John's Gospel.

Different church fathers refer to a Gospel of the Hebrews, Gospel of the Apostles, Gospel of the Twelve Apostles as well as The Hebrew Gospel.

Whoever its initial author was, he seems not to have known much of Jewish life besides what he could learn from the Gospel of Luke, which the text seems to refer to directly in ch.

" It is generally agreed that there was at least some period of oral transmission of the text, either wholly or as several different stories before it was first redacted and transcribed, and it is thus entirely possible that both of these texts and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas all refer to the oral versions of this story.

Much of the Gospel of Philip is dedicated to a discussion of marriage as a sacred mystery, and two passages directly refer to Mary Magdalene and her close relationship with Jesus:

3 Macc 4: 6 ), but is also used to refer to a " companion " in faith ( Phlm 17 ), a co-worker in proclaiming the Gospel ( 2 Cor 8: 23 ), or a business associate ( Luke 5: 10 ).

The Gospel of Philip uses cognates of koinônos and Coptic equivalents to refer to the literal pairing of men and women in marriage and sexual intercourse, but also metaphorically, referring to a spiritual partnership, and the reunification of the Gnostic Christian with the divine realm.

The Rabbi title is used in several New Testament episodes to refer to Jesus, but more often in the Gospel of John than elsewhere and does not appear in the Gospel of Luke at all.

On several occasions, the disciples also refer to Jesus as Rabbi in the Gospel of John, e. g. 4: 31, 6: 25, 9: 2 and 11: 8.

The Aachen Gospels may refer to either of two illuminated manuscript Gospel Books, more precisely known as the Aachen Coronation Gospels ( Aachen, Cathedral Treasury, s. n.

Others think it might refer to the man mentioned in the disputed Secret Gospel of Mark or the man in the white robe found at Jesus ' tomb.