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Grapes and figs grow apart from a dry thorny patch at an orchard boundary.
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 45:1

    Fruit and Thorns

    Fruit and the Storehouse · Gospel of Thomas 45

    Story guide: The separate growth makes the fruit-and-thorns contrast visible without turning the plants into moralized characters.

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    1Jesus said, “They do not pick grapes from thorns, nor do they gather figs from thistles—for they do not give fruit. A good person brings out a good thing from his storehouse; an evil person brings out an evil thing from his storehouse that is in his heart, and he speaks evil, for from the overflow of the heart he brings out evil.”

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