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THE 114 SAYINGS OF YESHUA · A READING IN CHAMBERS

Chamber 2
Sayings 14–26

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Saying 14

"If you fast, you will be at fault. If you pray, you will be wrong. If you give to charity, you will corrupt your mind. When you go into any land and walk through the countryside, if they welcome you, eat whatever they offer you. You can heal their sick. It is not what goes into your mouth that defiles you. It is what comes out of your mouth that defiles you."

Saying 15

"When you see someone who is not born from a womb, then prostrate yourselves and give worship, for this is your Father."

Saying 16

"People may think that I have come to bring peace to the world. They do not know that I have come to sow division upon the earth, fire, sword, war. When there are five in a house, three will be against two, and two against three, father against son, and son against father. And they will stand, and they will be alone and simple. Monachos."

Saying 17

"I will give you that which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no hand has touched, and no human heart has conceived."

Saying 18

"What do you know of the beginning, so that you now seek the end? Where the beginning is, the end will also be. Blessed are those who abide in the beginning, for they will know the end and will not taste death."

Saying 19

"Blessed is the one who is before existing. If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will serve you. In paradise there are five trees that do not change from summer to winter. Their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death."

Saying 20

"It is like a grain of mustard, the tiniest of all seeds. When it falls upon well-plowed ground, it becomes a great tree, where birds of heaven will come to rest."

Saying 21

Mary asked: "What are your disciples like?" He answered: "They are like little children who have gone into a field that does not belong to them. When the owners return and say, Give us back our field, they will remove their clothes, see themselves naked before the owners, and leave the field to them. This is why I say, If the master of the house knows that a thief is coming, he will be vigilant and not allow the thief to break into the house of his kingdom or carry off his goods. Thus you should be vigilant toward the world. Strengthen yourselves with great energy, or the robbers will find a way to get to you. May there be a wise person among you. When the crop is ripe, he comes immediately and harvests it with his sickle. Those who have ears, let them hear."

Saying 22

"When you make the two into one, when you make the inner like the outer, and the high like the low, when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male is not male and the female is not female, when you have eyes in your eyes, a hand in your hand, a foot in your foot, and an icon in your icon, then you will enter into the kingdom."

Saying 23

"I will choose one of you from a thousand and two of you from ten thousand, and they will stand as one, alone and simple."

Saying 24

"Those who have ears, let them hear. There is light within people of light, and they shine it upon the whole world. If they do not shine it, what darkness?"

Saying 25

"Love your brother and sister as your soul. Protect them as you do the pupil of your eye."

Saying 26

"You see the sliver in your brother's eye, but you do not see the log in your own eye. When you remove the log from your eye, then you will see clearly enough to remove the sliver from your brother's eye."

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