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Small garments lie beside an open field entrance while distant clothed adults stand at the boundary.
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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 21:2

    A Field Returned

    Readiness, Relinquishment, and Harvest · Gospel of Thomas 21

    Story guide: The returned field and set-aside garments illustrate relinquishment in the parable without presenting an authenticated event or portraits of children.

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    2He said, "They are like little children who have settled in a field that is not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will say, 'Leave our field to us.' They strip naked before them in order to leave it to them and give their field to them.

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