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- 63. Jesus says: "Blessed is the man who is troubled; he
has found Life!"
- 64. Jesus says: "Look for Him who lives, while you are
living; lest you die and seek to see Him, and can find no power to see"
A Samaritan was taking a lamb and going into Judea. He said to his disciples:
"What about that one with the lamb?" They answered: "..So that
he might kill it and eat it." He said to them: "He will not eat it
while it lives, but he will kill it, and it will become a corpse." They
said to him: "He can not do it any other way!" He said to them:
"You too, yourselves seek after a place of rest in yourself, so that
you do not become corpses, and are eaten!"
- 65. Jesus says: "Two will rest there on a bed;
one will die and the other will live."
Salome says: "Who are you, man? While one is out, you did climb on my
bed and did eat off my table?" Jesus said to her: "I am He who
exists from Him who is equality; I have been given that which is of my Father.
" - "I am your disciple!"
Because of this, I say: "If one is consumed, he will be full of light;
however, if one should become divided, he will be full of darkness."
- 66. Jesus says: "I speak of my mysteries to ['''<those
who are worthy of>'''] my mysteries.
What your right hand does, let your left hand not realize it does it."
- 67. Jesus said: "There was a wealthy man who was very rich.
He said to himself, 'I will use my wealth so that I may sow and reap and plant,
and I will fill my treasure house with fruit so I need nothing.' These were his
thoughts in his mind. But during that night, he died. He who has ears, let him
listen!"
- 68. Jesus said: "A man was having some visitors. When he
had prepared the dinner, he sent his servant so he might call the visitors. He
went to the first and said to him: 'My Lord calls you!' He replied: 'I have
some money for some traders who are coming this evening, and I will place orders
with them. I beg excuse from the dinner.' Going to another he said to him: 'My
Lord calls you.' He said to him: 'I have bought a house and it requires a day's
time of me; I will not be free.' He went to another and said to him: 'My Lord
calls you!' He replied; 'My friend is getting married, and I am giving the dinner,
and can't come. I beg excuse from the dinner.' He went to another and said to
him: 'My Lord calls you!' He said to him; 'I have bought a field and I am going
to collect the taxes. I cannot come; I beg to be excused.' The servant returned
and spoke this to his Lord: 'Those whom you called to the dinner have begged to
be excused.' The Lord said to his servant; 'Go out into the streets and those
whom you find, bring them in so that they may dine.' The buyers and the traders
may not come into the places of my Father."
- 69. He said; "A just man had a vineyard, which he gave to
tenants so they might work it, and he receive the fruit from their hand.
He sent his servant so that the tenants might give him the fruit of the
vineyard: They seized his servant, and beat him and nearly killed him. The
servant came back and told this to his Lord. His Lord said 'Perhaps he
did not recognize them?' He sent another servant: the tenants beat this one
also. Then the Lord sent his son. He said to himself, 'Perhaps they will be
ashamed before my son.' Because the tenants there knew that he was the heir
to the vineyard, they killed him. He who has ears let him listen!"
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