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A fig tree’s trunk and a separate cluster of ripe fruit share the orchard foreground.
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

Source edition: Coptic Scriptorium — Paul Dilley, 2025 (v6.2.0) · CC-BY 4.0

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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 43:2

    Tree and Fruit

    Identity, Tree, and Fruit · Gospel of Thomas 43

    Story guide: The separated tree and fruit illustrate the comparison in the reply, not a portrait or blanket judgment of the people named in the text.

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    2"From what I say to you, you do not know who I am. But you have become like the Jews, for they love the tree but hate its fruit, and they love the fruit but hate the tree."

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