In this saying the thought of Matt. 5:14 is combined with that of Matt. 7:24, 25, but there is no necessary literary dependence upon Matthew.
The seventh and last saying on this leaf is:
[Jesus saith,] Thou hearest with one ear, but the other thou hast closed.
This, too, is not found in our Gospels.
In 1904 another leaf of sayings of Jesus was found at the same place. It begins with a general introduction, thus:[605]
These are the [wonderful?][606] words which Jesus the living Lord spake [to the disciples] and to Thomas, and he said to them: Every one that hearkens to these words shall never taste of death.
These words formed the general introduction to a collection of sayings of Jesus, similar to that from which the sayings already quoted were taken. The leaf also contained a few of the sayings which stood in the collection. They are as follows:
Jesus saith, Let not him who seeks ...... cease until he finds, and when he finds he shall be astonished; astonished he shall reach the kingdom, and having reached the kingdom he shall rest.
The Gospels contain parallels to parts of this saying. (See Matt. 6:33; 7:7; 13:44; Luke 5:9.)
The second of these sayings is longer: