A LIST OF SOME UNCANONICAL SAYINGS OF JESUS
Some of the more important reported sayings of Christ are given which are not found in the Gospels or Acts; whether true words of the Master or not, it is not known. Some certainly are not like the Spirit of Christ, but it will be of service to the student to compare them with the genuine Words of Jesus in our Gospels. The Apocryphal Gospels are passed by as not worth using in this list.
1. The Logia of Jesus (Grenfell and Hunt):
Jesus saith: Except ye fast to the world, ye shall in no wise find the Kingdom of God; and except ye keep the Sabbath, ye shall not see the Father.
Jesus saith: I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh was I seen of them, and I found all men drunken, and none found I athirst among them, and my soul grieveth over the sons of men because they are blind in their heart.
Jesus saith: Wherever there are ... and there is one ... alone, I am with him. Raise the stone and there thou shalt find me, cleave the wood and there am I.
Jesus saith: A prophet is not acceptable in his own country, neither doth a physician work cures upon them that know him.
Jesus saith: A city built upon the top of a high hill and stablished, can neither fall nor be hid.
2. Readings found in Codex D.
One is concerning a man found working on the Sabbath, and comes after [Luke 6:4]: O man, if indeed thou knowest what thou doest, thou art blessed; but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed and art a transgressor of the law.
Likewise Codex D has, after [Matt. 20:28]: But you seek to increase from little, and from greater to be less.
3. Quotations found in various early Fathers.
From Barnabas: Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred. They who wish to see me and lay hold on my kingdom must receive me by affliction and suffering.
From Origen and others: Show yourselves tried money changers.
Ask great things, and the small shall be added to you; and ask heavenly things, and the earthly shall be added unto you.
He who is near me is near the fire: he who is far from me, is far from the kingdom.
For those that are sick I was sick, and for those that hunger, I suffered hunger, and for those that thirst, I suffered thirst.
From Clement of Rome (Ep. II.): Keep the flesh pure, and the seal unspotted.
When the two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female neither male nor female.
If ye kept not that which is small, who will give you that which is great? For I say unto you, that he that is faithful in very little is faithful also in much.
From Justin Martyr: In whatsoever I may find you, in this will I also judge you. Such as I may find thee, I will judge thee.
From Ignatius: Take hold, handle me, and see that I am not an incorporeal spirit.
From Clement of Alexandria: He that wonders shall reign, and he that reigns shall rest. Look with wonder at that which is before you. My mystery is for me and for the sons of my house.
From Papias: The days will come in which vines shall spring up, each having ten thousand stocks, and on each stock ten thousand branches, and on each branch ten thousand shoots, and on each shoot ten thousand bunches, and on each bunch ten thousand grapes, and each grape when pressed shall give five and twenty measures of wine. And when any saint shall have seized one bunch, another shall cry: I am a better bunch; take me; through me bless the Lord.