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THE 114 SAYINGS OF YESHUA · A READING IN CHAMBERS

Chamber 1
Sayings 1–13

What does seeking ask of your attention before you settle on an answer?

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Saying 1

"Whoever lives the interpretation of these words will no longer taste death."

Saying 2

"Whoever searches must continue to search until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. And being disturbed, they will marvel and will reign over all."

Saying 3

"If those who guide you say, Look, the kingdom is in the sky, then the birds are closer than you. If they say, Look, it is in the sea, then the fish already know it. The kingdom is inside you, and it is outside you. When you know yourself, then you will be known. And you will know that you are the child of the living Father. But if you do not know yourself, you will live in vain, and you will be vanity."

Saying 4

"An aged person will not hesitate to ask a seven-day-old infant about the place of life, and that person will live. Many of the first will make themselves last, and they will become one."

Saying 5

"Recognize what it is in front of you, and what is hidden from you will be revealed. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed."

Saying 6

"Stop lying. Do not do that which is against your love. You are naked before heaven. What you hide will be revealed. Whatever is veiled will be unveiled."

Saying 7

"Fortunate is the lion eaten by a human, for lion becomes human. Unfortunate is the human eaten by a lion, for human becomes lion."

Saying 8

"A human being is like a good fisherman who casts his net into the sea. When he pulls it out, he finds a multitude of little fish. Among them there is one fine, large fish. Without hesitation, he keeps it and throws all the small fish back into the sea. Those who have ears, let them hear."

Saying 9

"Once a sower went out and sowed a handful of seeds. Some fell on the road and were eaten by birds. Some fell among the thorns, which smothered their growth, and the worms devoured them. Some fell among the rocks and could not take root. Others fell on fertile ground, and their fruits grew up toward heaven. They produced sixty and one hundred and twenty units per measure."

Saying 10

"I have sown fire upon the world, and now I tend it to a blaze."

Saying 11

"This sky will pass away, and the one above it will also pass away. The dead have no life, and the living have no death. On days when you ate what was dead, you made it alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? When you were one, you created two. But now that you are two, what will you do?"

Saying 12

"When you find yourself at that point, go to James, the just. All that concerns heaven and earth is his domain."

Saying 13

Thomas said: "Master, my mouth could never utter what you are like." Yeshua told him: "I am no longer your master, because you have drunk, and become drunken from the same bubbling source from which I spring." Then he took him aside and said three words to him. Thomas answered the others: "If I told you even one of the things he said to me, you would pick up stones and throw them at me, and fire would come out of those stones and consume you."

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A QUESTION TO CARRY

What does seeking ask of your attention before you settle on an answer?

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