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An adult sits in shadow with empty hands illuminated by a natural window beam.
AI-generated artwork interprets the Gospel of Thomas. Text is quoted from the People's Open Bible Historical Library; imagery does not establish historical events. Interpretive visual essay of this saying, not a historical reconstruction.

Historical Library · Nag Hammadi

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Anonymous. The prologue attributes the sayings to Didymos Judas Thomas; this is not proof of historical authorship.

Nag Hammadi Codex II (NHAM 02), pp. 32–51 · Sahidic Coptic with Lycopolitan features

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Prologue 0 and sayings 1-114 are retained. Numbered paragraphs within a saying are modern reader units, not ancient verse numbering.

    Gospel of Thomas 11:1

    Light and Division

    Story guide: The quiet figure and natural light accompany the saying’s questions about life and division without making its abstract language into a narrated event.

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    1Jesus said, “This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. And the dead are not alive, and the living will not die. On the days when you ate what is dead, you made it alive. When you come to be 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?”

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