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A sower casts seed beside a path, rocks, thorns, and productive grain.
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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 9:1

    The Sower and the Soils

    Story guide: The field brings the parable’s four kinds of ground into one overview; each produces a different outcome for the seed.

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    1Jesus said, "Behold, the sower went out; he filled his hand and cast seed. Some indeed fell on the path; the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on the rock, and they did not cast root down to the ground, and they did not send ears of grain up to the sky. And others fell on the thorns; they gathered them, choked the seed, and the worm ate them. And others fell on the good ground, and it gave good fruit up to the sky: it yielded sixty measures and one hundred twenty measures."

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