The One Gospel — Thomas Saying-by-Saying Integration Ledger

Working ledger — 114 Thomas sayings. This combines the two existing planning pages and the Lambdin text. Initial classification follows the user's first-pass plan; it is provisional, not a completed scholarly verse comparison.

Policy: The four canonical Gospels retain their chronology and wording. Only distinctive Thomas material should enter the narrative. Avoid all newly invented dialogue or scene-setting; use existing source introductions only. Thomas inclusions use blue text as temporary internal placement markup, with each logion tracked here and in editorial notes. Blue will not appear in the final book. Thomas placement is thematic and reconstructed, never historically established.

Source: Gospel of Thomas. Plans: 📜Gospel of Thomas — Integration Plan for the One Gospel and 📜Thomasine Discourses for The One Gospel.

Full first-pass disposition completed: 84 distinct Thomas logia represented in 82 blue blocks, and 30 omitted (primarily canonical duplicates, internal Thomas repetitions or minor narrative variants). All 114 logia have a recorded decision below. Source locations in the master are provisional thematic placements, not independently attested chronology; some complex sayings remain subject to authorial reconsideration. The ledger represents all 114 logia once; logion 21 contains multiple motifs. Included logia 5, 16, 47, 62, 64, 72 use only their distinctive source-text excerpts, omitting parallel portions; the other inclusions generally reproduce the complete corresponding Lambdin saying, apart from typographic quotation normalization.

Thomas 1 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §1

• Content: "Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death."
• Actual location: §27, after Yeshua’s first disciples; Thomas 1 is introductory to the Thomas collection and its new setting here is purely editorial. Existing parallels: None (Thomas prologue).

Thomas 2 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §27

• Content: "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All."
• Proposed location: After §27. Existing parallels: Echoes Matt 7:7 (seek and find) but goes much further.

Thomas 3 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known"
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Luke 17:20–21 ("the kingdom of God is within you").

Thomas 4 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §99

• Content: "The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old… the first will become last"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Matt 18:1–5, Matt 19:30 (first/last).

Thomas 5 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: "Recognize what is in your sight… nothing hidden which will not become manifest"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Mark 4:22, Luke 8:17.

Thomas 6 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §75

• Content: Disciples ask about fasting/prayer/alms — "Do not tell lies… nothing hidden will not become manifest"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Mark 4:22 + Matt 6:1–18 (teaching on fasting/prayer/alms).

Thomas 7 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: "Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man…"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Enigmatic. Fits as private esoteric teaching after parables..

Thomas 8 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: Wise fisherman finds one great fish among small ones
• Proposed location: Within §68 (after canonical net parable). Existing parallels: Matt 13:47–50 (Net parable).

Thomas 9 — Parallel | OMITTED — sower variant; differences in weeds, worms and yields documented

• Content: Parable of the Sower
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:3–9, Mark 4:3–9, Luke 8:5–8.

Thomas 10 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §91

• Content: "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: Luke 12:49 ("I came to send fire on the earth").

Thomas 11 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "This heaven will pass away… when you were one you became two"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Cosmological. Could pair with eschatological teaching..

Thomas 12 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §217A

• Content: "Who is to be our leader?" — "Go to James the righteous"
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Commissioning. Fits post-resurrection before ascension..

Thomas 13 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §91

• Content: "Compare me to someone" — Peter: "righteous angel"; Matthew: "wise philosopher"; Thomas: "my mouth is wholly incapable" — Jesus takes Thomas aside, tells him three secret things
• Proposed location: Near §91 (distinct exchange). Existing parallels: Matt 16:13–20 (Peter's Confession).

Thomas 14 — Variant | PROVISIONAL — INSERTED IN BLUE AT §75

• Content: "If you fast, you will give rise to sin… eat what they set before you, heal the sick… what goes into your mouth will not defile you"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: Luke 10:8–9 (mission instructions) + Matt 15:11 (defilement) + Mark 7:15.

Thomas 15 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves… That one is your father"
• Proposed location: §91 (confession). Existing parallels: No parallel. Private revelation about the Father..

Thomas 16 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §122

• Content: "Men think I have come to cast peace… fire, sword, and war. Five in a house: three against two"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: Matt 10:34–36, Luke 12:51–53.

Thomas 17 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §27

• Content: "I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard"
• Proposed location: Near §27 or §183. Existing parallels: Echoed by Paul (1 Cor 2:9). Could fit after parables or farewell..

Thomas 18 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §173

• Content: "Have you discovered the beginning, that you look for the end?"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Esoteric eschatology. Fits private teaching..

Thomas 19 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §217A

• Content: "Five trees for you in Paradise… will not experience death"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Deeply esoteric. Private teaching..

Thomas 20 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§68)

• Content: Mustard Seed
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:31–32, Mark 4:30–32.

Thomas 21 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §121

• Content: "If the owner of a house knows the thief is coming, he will keep vigil" / "man of understanding — when the grain ripened, he came with his sickle"
• Proposed location: §§131/158–173 (later ministry). Existing parallels: Matt 24:43 (thief in the night), Mark 4:29 (harvest).

Thomas 22 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §99

• Content: Infants being suckled — "When you make the two one, and the inside like the outside… male and female one and the same… then will you enter the kingdom"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Matt 18:1–5 ("unless you become as little children").

Thomas 23 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §74

• Content: "I shall choose you, one out of a thousand… they shall stand as a single one"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Election/calling. Could fit with calling of the Twelve..

Thomas 24 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "Show us the place where you are" — "There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: John 14:2–4 ("In my Father's house are many mansions… you know the way").

Thomas 25 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100

• Content: "Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye"
• Proposed location: §55 (love teaching). Existing parallels: Matt 22:39 / Lev 19:18 ("love your neighbor").

Thomas 26 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§55)

• Content: Mote and beam in the eye
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 7:3–5, Luke 6:41–42.

Thomas 27 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §75

• Content: "If you do not fast as regards the world, you will not find the kingdom. If you do not observe the Sabbath as a Sabbath, you will not see the father."
• Proposed location: Undecided; place only after comparison. Existing parallels: Sabbath controversy? Sermon on Mount? Private teaching?.

Thomas 28 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "I took my place in the midst of the world… I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty"
• Proposed location: §91 (confession). Existing parallels: Lament over the world. Could pair with weeping over Jerusalem or with John's prologue..

Thomas 29 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder… this great wealth in this poverty"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Body/spirit teaching. Private esoteric..

Thomas 30 — Variant | PROVISIONAL — INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Where there are three gods, they are gods. Where there are two or one, I am with him"
• Proposed location: Undecided; place only after comparison. Existing parallels: Matt 18:20 ("where two or three are gathered").

Thomas 31 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §73

• Content: "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 13:57, Mark 6:4, Luke 4:24, John 4:44 — rejection at Nazareth.

Thomas 32 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: City on a high mountain cannot fall or be hidden
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 5:14.

Thomas 33 — Parallel | OMITTED — housetops and lamp parallels retained canonically

• Content: Preach from housetops / lamp on a stand
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 5:15, 10:27; Luke 8:16.

Thomas 34 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§55)

• Content: Blind man leads blind man, both fall in a pit
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 15:14, Luke 6:39.

Thomas 35 — Parallel | OMITTED — strong man saying parallels canonical version

• Content: "Not possible to enter house of a strong man… unless he binds his hands"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 12:29, Mark 3:27.

Thomas 36 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§55)

• Content: Do not be concerned about what you will wear
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 6:25–34 ("Consider the lilies").

Thomas 37 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §99

• Content: "When will you become revealed to us?" — "When you disrobe without being ashamed… like little children and tread on them"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Echoes childhood/innocence theme. Private teaching. Place near Matt 18..

Thomas 38 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "Many times have you desired to hear these words… There will be days when you will look for me and will not find me"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: John 7:33–34, 13:33 ("you will seek me"), John 16:16–22 ("a little while").

Thomas 39 — Parallel | OMITTED — keys of knowledge and serpents/doves both present canonically

• Content: "Pharisees have taken the keys of knowledge and hidden them"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 23:13, Luke 11:52.

Thomas 40 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "A grapevine planted outside of the father… pulled up by its roots"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Could pair with John 15 (True Vine) or parables..

Thomas 41 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§68)

• Content: "Whoever has something in his hand will receive more"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:12, 25:29; Mark 4:25.

Thomas 42 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Become passers-by."
• Proposed location: §133 (cost of discipleship). Existing parallels: Radical detachment. Fits road to Jerusalem..

Thomas 43 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §91

• Content: "Who are you, that you should say these things to us?" — "You do not realize who I am from what I say"
• Proposed location: §91 (confession). Existing parallels: Fits with identity questions. Place near "Who do you say I am?".

Thomas 44 — Parallel | OMITTED — blasphemy saying represented canonically

• Content: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 12:31–32, Mark 3:28–29.

Thomas 45 — Parallel | OMITTED — tree fruit/heart storehouse represented canonically

• Content: Grapes not from thorns / good man brings forth good from storehouse / out of abundance of the heart
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 7:16–20, Luke 6:43–45.

Thomas 46 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §99

• Content: "Among those born of women… no one so superior to John the Baptist… whichever one becomes a child will become superior to John"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 11:11, Luke 7:28.

Thomas 47 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: Two masters / new wine in old wineskins / old patch on new garment
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 6:24, 9:16–17; Mark 2:21–22; Luke 5:36–39, 16:13.

Thomas 48 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100

• Content: "If two make peace in this one house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move away'"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Matt 17:20, 18:19 ("if two of you agree").

Thomas 49 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find the kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return."
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Post-resurrection or farewell. Teaching on origin and return..

Thomas 50 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord… It is movement and repose"
• Current placement: §68A, among sayings on light and origin. This is thematic; Thomas gives no date.

Thomas 51 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §217A

• Content: "When will the repose of the dead come?" — "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it"
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Realized eschatology. Compare with Acts 1:6–8. Post-resurrection..

Thomas 52 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §59

• Content: "Twenty-four prophets spoke in you" — "You have omitted the one living in your presence"
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Post-resurrection teaching — the living one vs. the dead prophets..

Thomas 53 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §109

• Content: "Is circumcision beneficial?" — "the true circumcision in spirit"
• Proposed location: §§131/158–173 (later ministry). Existing parallels: Echoes Paul (Rom 2:28–29). Could fit Temple teaching or final private discourse..

Thomas 54 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§55)

• Content: "Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 5:3, Luke 6:20.

Thomas 55 — Parallel | OMITTED — family and cross teaching already represented canonically

• Content: "Whoever does not hate his father and mother… take up his cross"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: Matt 10:37–38, Luke 14:26–27.

Thomas 56 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Whoever has come to understand the world has found a corpse"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Renunciation teaching. Road to Jerusalem..

Thomas 57 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§68)

• Content: Wheat and Tares (Weeds)
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:24–30.

Thomas 58 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Fits with road to Jerusalem / passion predictions.

Thomas 59 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "Take heed of the living one while you are alive, lest you die and seek to see him and be unable"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: Echoes John 12:35 ("Walk while you have the light"). Farewell urgency..

Thomas 60 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: Samaritan carrying a lamb — "look for a place for yourself within repose, lest you become a corpse"
• Current placement: §100A, beside sayings on the world, death, and repose. The Samaritan is not identified with Luke's Good Samaritan.

Thomas 61 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: Salome: "Who are you, man?" — "I am he who exists from the undivided"
• Current placement: §68A, as a separate undated exchange with Salome on undivided identity and light. She is not identified with Luke's unnamed woman.

Thomas 62 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: "It is to those worthy of my mysteries that I tell my mysteries" / left hand not knowing right hand
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:11 ("to you it is given to know the mysteries") + Matt 6:3.

Thomas 63 — Parallel | OMITTED — rich fool parallel already fully narrated

• Content: Rich man who planned to fill his storehouse but died that night
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Luke 12:16–21 (Rich Fool).

Thomas 64 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §130

• Content: Great Banquet — more detailed excuses, "businessmen and merchants will not enter"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 22:1–14, Luke 14:16–24.

Thomas 65 — Parallel | OMITTED — vineyard tenants variant; small divergent motives remain in notes

• Content: Wicked Tenants of the Vineyard
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 21:33–41, Mark 12:1–9.

Thomas 66 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§164)

• Content: "The stone which the builders rejected is the cornerstone"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 21:42, Mark 12:10, Ps 118:22.

Thomas 67 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "If one who knows the all still feels a personal deficiency, he is completely deficient"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Private teaching on wholeness..

Thomas 68 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §75

• Content: "Blessed are you when you are hated and persecuted"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 5:10–11, Luke 6:22.

Thomas 69 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §75

• Content: "Blessed are they who have been persecuted within themselves" / "Blessed are the hungry"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 5:6, 5:10; Luke 6:21.

Thomas 70 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves. That which you do not have within you will kill you if you do not have it within you."
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: No parallel. Fits the farewell discourse — final exhortation to the inner life..

Thomas 71 — Variant | PROVISIONAL — INSERTED IN BLUE AT §158

• Content: "I shall destroy this house, and no one will be able to build it"
• Current location: §158, within the Temple-cleansing scene as a separate provisional blue saying. Existing parallels: John 2:19 ("Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up"), Matt 26:61.

Thomas 72 — Parallel | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §120

• Content: Man asks Jesus to divide inheritance — "O man, who has made me a divider?"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Luke 12:13–14.

Thomas 73 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§74)

• Content: "The harvest is great but the laborers are few"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: Matt 9:37–38, Luke 10:2.

Thomas 74 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "There are many around the drinking trough, but there is nothing in the cistern"
• Current placement: §100A, following Thomas 75's contrast between the many at the door and the solitary who enters. The link is thematic; Thomas gives no date.

Thomas 75 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who will enter the bridal chamber"
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Bridal chamber imagery. Post-resurrection or farewell..

Thomas 76 — Parallel | OMITTED — pearl/treasure motifs already represented canonically

• Content: Pearl of Great Price
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:45–46.

Thomas 77 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "I am the light which is above them all. I am the all. From me did the all come forth… Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
• Proposed location: §36 or §183. Existing parallels: Echoes John's "I Am" sayings (John 8:12, 14:6). Pantheistic/cosmic Christ..

Thomas 78 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§59)

• Content: "Why have you come into the desert? To see a reed shaken by the wind?"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 11:7–8, Luke 7:24–25 — about John the Baptist.

Thomas 79 — Parallel | OMITTED — mother blessing and barren womb sayings are separately canonical

• Content: Woman says "Blessed are the womb which bore you" — Jesus redirects
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Luke 11:27–28.

Thomas 80 — Distinctive | OMITTED — near-repeat of Thomas 56 already integrated

• Content: "He who has recognized the world has found the body… is superior to the world"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Variant of #56. Same placement..

Thomas 81 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §146

• Content: "Let him who has grown rich be king, and let him who possesses power renounce it"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Fits with Rich Young Ruler or road to Jerusalem.

Thomas 82 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §91

• Content: "He who is near me is near the fire, and he who is far from me is far from the kingdom"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: No direct parallel (echoes Luke 12:49).

Thomas 83 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "The images are manifest to man, but the light in them remains concealed"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: Esoteric teaching on the divine image. Farewell or post-resurrection..

Thomas 84 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you… how much you will have to bear!"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: Pair with #83. Pre-existent images. Farewell or post-resurrection..

Thomas 85 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68A

• Content: "Adam came into being from a great power… had he been worthy, he would not have experienced death"
• Current placement: §68A, following Thomas 29's language of wealth and poverty and near its life-and-death theme. This is thematic, not chronological.

Thomas 86 — Parallel | OMITTED — foxes and birds canonical parallel

• Content: "Foxes have their holes… son of man has no place to lay his head"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 8:20, Luke 9:58.

Thomas 87 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Wretched is the body that is dependent upon a body, wretched is the soul dependent on these two"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Body/spirit teaching. Road to Jerusalem..

Thomas 88 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §217A

• Content: "The angels and the prophets will come to you and give to you those things you already have"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: Post-ascension promise? Farewell context..

Thomas 89 — Parallel | OMITTED — washing cup canonical parallel

• Content: "Why do you wash the outside of the cup?"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 23:25–26, Luke 11:39–40.

Thomas 90 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§60)

• Content: "Come unto me, for my yoke is easy and my lordship is mild, and you will find repose"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: Matt 11:28–30.

Thomas 91 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §91

• Content: "Tell us who you are" — "You read the face of the sky… you do not know how to read this moment"
• Proposed location: §91 (confession). Existing parallels: Matt 16:1–4 (sign of the times), Luke 12:54–56.

Thomas 92 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "What you asked me about in former times and which I did not tell you, now I do desire to tell, but you do not inquire after it"
• Proposed location: §§181–184 (farewell teaching). Existing parallels: Fits farewell — the disciples have stopped asking the right questions..

Thomas 93 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§55)

• Content: Do not give what is holy to dogs / pearls to swine
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 7:6.

Thomas 94 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§55/§118)

• Content: "He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 7:7–8, Luke 11:9–10.

Thomas 95 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §75

• Content: "If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give it to one from whom you will not get it back"
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 5:42, Luke 6:30–35.

Thomas 96 — Parallel | OMITTED — leaven canonical parallel

• Content: Leaven / Woman with dough
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:33, Luke 13:20–21.

Thomas 97 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: Woman carrying jar of meal — handle breaks, meal empties without her knowing
• Proposed location: §68 (distinct parable). Existing parallels: Parable unique to Thomas. Place in parables discourse..

Thomas 98 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: Man who practices with sword before slaying the powerful man
• Proposed location: §68 (distinct parable; sensitive violence). Existing parallels: Parable unique to Thomas. Parable of preparation/resolve. Parables discourse..

Thomas 99 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (family encounter)

• Content: "Your brothers and mother are standing outside" — "Those here who do the will of my father are my brothers"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 12:46–50, Mark 3:31–35.

Thomas 100 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: Render unto Caesar — Thomas adds "and give me what is mine"
• Current location: §100A, as the full source saying for author comparison. The canonical tribute exchange in §166 remains continuous. Existing parallels: Matt 22:15–22, Mark 12:13–17.

Thomas 101 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Whoever does not hate his father and mother… whoever does not love his father and mother" / "my true mother gave me life"
• Proposed location: §75 (mission to the Twelve). Existing parallels: Matt 10:37, Luke 14:26.

Thomas 102 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §119

• Content: "Woe to the Pharisees — like a dog sleeping in the manger of oxen"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 23 (Woes), Luke 11:37–54.

Thomas 103 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §121

• Content: "Fortunate is the man who knows where the brigands will enter, so that he may arm himself before they invade"
• Proposed location: §§131/158–173 (later ministry). Existing parallels: Matt 24:43–44 (thief in the night).

Thomas 104 — Parallel | OMIT — canonical parallel retained (§49)

• Content: "Come, let us fast" — "What sin have I committed?… when the bridegroom leaves, then let them fast"
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 9:14–15, Mark 2:18–20.

Thomas 105 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "He who knows the father and the mother will be called the son of a harlot"
• Proposed location: §217 (forty-day period; source supplies no date). Existing parallels: Fragmentary/enigmatic. Post-resurrection..

Thomas 106 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man… 'Mountain, move away'"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Matt 17:20, 21:21 (faith to move mountains).

Thomas 107 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §99

• Content: Lost Sheep — shepherd seeks the largest sheep
• Proposed location: §§59/66/119/171 (specific source context to decide). Existing parallels: Matt 18:12–14, Luke 15:3–7.

Thomas 108 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §183A

• Content: "He who will drink from my mouth will become like me. I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden will be revealed to him."
• Proposed location: §183 (farewell discourse). Existing parallels: Echoes John 15:5 (vine/branches) and John 17 (High Priestly Prayer — "I in them and you in me"). Deep mystical union..

Thomas 109 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §68

• Content: Hidden Treasure (longer version with inheritance)
• Proposed location: §§55/68 (Sermon or Kingdom parables); confirm individually. Existing parallels: Matt 13:44.

Thomas 110 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, let him renounce the world"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Fits with Rich Young Ruler (Matt 19:16–30).

Thomas 111 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §173

• Content: "The heavens and the earth will be rolled up in your presence… whoever finds himself is superior to the world"
• Proposed location: §§99/133–146 (discipleship and journey). Existing parallels: Eschatological. Near Olivet Discourse or road to Jerusalem..

Thomas 112 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §100A

• Content: "Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul; woe to the soul that depends on the flesh"
• Current location: §100A, paired with Thomas 87 in one blue block. Existing parallels: Variant of #87. Same placement.

Thomas 113 — Variant | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §217A

• Content: "When will the kingdom come?" — "It will not come by waiting for it… the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it"
• Proposed location: §141 or §217. Existing parallels: Luke 17:20–21, Acts 1:6–8.

Thomas 114 — Distinctive | INSERTED IN BLUE AT §217A

• Content: Peter says Mary should leave — Jesus: "I myself shall lead her to make her male… every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom"
• Proposed location: Disputed; hold for theological and textual review. Existing parallels: No parallel. Post-resurrection exchange. Controversial..

Literary placement review — 7 October 2026

The master was checked section by section for 84 distinct Thomas logia represented in 82 blue blocks against its source headers and adjacent canonical prose. All 82 blocks remain blue; 98 and 114 are present in §§68 and 217. The following six were moved intact from the Sermon on the Mount (§55) to a separately headed, undated Thomas group in the instructions to the Twelve (§75): 6, 14, 32, 68, 69, 95. Thomas 32 is no longer inside the canonical city-on-a-hill sentence. The §55 source line now cites only Matthew and Luke; §75 cites all seven Thomas sayings there, including 50. This placement uses a disciple setting but does not establish the sayings’ actual date. Thomas 14 remains provisional for the author’s inspection, as do 30 (§100A) and 71 (§158). Do not treat their inclusion as doctrinal agreement with adjacent canonical material.

The remaining clusters were reviewed for speaker, audience and flow. §68’s Thomas sayings follow the point where the canonical narrative has shifted from the crowd to the disciples; its seven-saying run, particularly 98 and 109, remains long and tonally uneven. §133 still contains nine undated Thomas sayings after an address to great multitudes; a heading now marks them as a separate thematic group. §183 has eight Thomas sayings after the canonical farewell discourse; a heading distinguishes them from John 15–16. §217 has six Thomas sayings amid the forty-day framework; a heading says they are undated because Thomas supplies no post-resurrection date. §32 is likewise marked undated so its four sayings are not presented as part of Nicodemus’s attested conversation. No source wording was changed for these headings.

Variant decisions remain open. Thomas 9 (sower) and 65 (tenants) stay omitted pending the author’s line-by-line choice; do not convert this provisional omission into a final judgment. See the endnotes for their wording differences. Other omitted variants likewise remain reviewable individually.

Second literary placement pass — 7 October 2026

The present master has 84 distinct Thomas logia represented in 82 blue blocks, organized by 221 permanent internal Gospel identifiers and four lettered Thomas-only inserts. This supersedes earlier placement lists in this ledger; the “INSERTED IN BLUE AT §” heading for each saying now gives its current location. The 30 omitted sayings remain provisional, especially variants 9 and 65, until the author decides them individually.

New Thomas-only sections: §68A gathers 3, 11, 15, 24, 29, 32, 74, 77, 83, 84 after §68’s private parable teaching; §100A gathers 30, 42, 47, 49, 56, 58, 75, 87, 100, 101, 105, 106, 110, 112 after the house teaching in §§99–100; §183A contains 28, 38, 40, 59, 67, 70, 92, 108 after the completed farewell discourse; §217A contains 12, 19, 51, 88, 113, 114 after the completed commission. Each section labels the Thomas material undated. These are editorial placements, not claims that Thomas dates the sayings to those scenes.

Other moves: 1 is now distinguished as the Thomas collection’s opening saying in §1; 10 and 91 moved from the mixed crowd setting of §122 to the disciples’ identity exchange in §91; 25 moved from the public scribe exchange in §168 to the brotherly-love teaching in §100; 27 moved from the synagogue scene in §124 to the mission instruction in §75; 46 moved from the crowd speech about John in §59 to the child teaching in the house in §99; 71 is currently placed at the public Temple cleansing in §158, where it remains a separate provisional saying. Thomas 31 is now a separate sourced saying after the canonical Nazareth account, rather than embedded inside its quotation. Thomas 100 is now the complete Lambdin saying in §100A for comparison; the canonical tax exchange in §166 is continuous.

Status: 14 (§75), 30 (§100A), and 71 (§158) remain blue and provisional. 12, 98, and 114 remain included under the author’s earlier choices. No omitted variant has been merged into canonical wording. See the editorial endnotes for audience and flow reasoning and remaining open cases.

Author-review proposal — three Thomas-only sessions (7 October 2026)

Status: Planning only. The master still contains four Thomas-only inserts (§68A, §100A, §183A, §217A) and other blue placements. No sayings have been moved or removed by this proposal. Thomas supplies no dates for these sessions; any location in the harmony is editorial.

1. The Kingdom and the Light — after §68

Use Thomas 24, 77, 83, 84, 3, 11, and 29 as the core. This moves from the disciples’ question about where Yeshua is, through light and images, to the kingdom and the relation of spirit and body. All seven are already together in §68A, but a tighter order and selection would make the section read as one sustained exchange. Review 32 separately as a close parallel to the city-on-a-hill saying. Hold 15 and 74 for the author’s decision; their subjects interrupt this sequence.

2. The Disciple and the World — after §100

Use Thomas 42, 47, 49, 56, 58, 75, 87, 110, 112, and 106 as a working sequence: passing through the world, renunciation and solitude, suffering and bodily dependence, then making two one. These are already in §100A. Review 30, 100, 101, and 105 outside this sequence. Thomas 30 is opaque; 100 parallels the later tax exchange; 101 contains a textual gap and a difficult family saying; 105 changes subject abruptly. Their inclusion remains an authorial decision.

3. The Farewell Teaching — after §183

The current §183A set—Thomas 28, 40, 59, 38, 92, 108, 70, and 67—has a workable progression from the world’s blindness to Yeshua’s departure, seeking, and bringing forth what is within. Keep it as a visibly separate undated sayings session rather than adding invented narrative transitions to John’s farewell discourse. Review the exact order and whether 67 makes a suitable ending.

The present post-resurrection group

Do not treat §217A as a dated forty-day dialogue simply because it follows the commission. Thomas 12 raises the leadership of James, and 114 raises a distinct interpretive problem about Mary and gender; both need separate author review. Thomas 51 and 113 concern the kingdom’s arrival and could be reconsidered alongside other kingdom sayings. Thomas 19 and 88 can be reassessed after the three core sessions are shaped. The current source note correctly labels all six sayings undated.

Criteria for individual integration

Keep a saying inside a canonical scene only when its speaker, audience, and subject fit that scene without creating a false sequence or altering a canonical quotation. Clear candidates for continued review include Thomas 31 near Nazareth, 52 near the testimony about John, 64 near the banquet, and 102 near the woes. Reconsider Thomas 71 at the Temple cleansing: its claim that the house will not be rebuilt sits beside John’s three-day temple saying and may read as a contradiction rather than an explanation. Keep all source numbers and blue review markup until the author approves the final selection.

Specific placements to reconsider

• Thomas 61 at §61: Salome's exchange follows Luke's account of an unnamed woman who anoints Yeshua. The separate subheading helps, but the adjacency may invite readers to identify Salome with that woman. Thomas does not make that identification. Consider moving the exchange into a Thomas-only session or holding it.
• Thomas 60 at §112: Its Samaritan carrying a lamb shares a Samaritan figure with the Good Samaritan parable, but it is a different episode with a different subject. The lexical resemblance alone is weak grounds for placing it there.
• Thomas 50 and 14 at §75: The account of coming from the Light and the sharp words about fasting, prayer, and alms interrupt the mission instructions. Thomas 14 partly echoes the mission instructions about receiving food and healing; its earlier sentences need separate treatment. Thomas 50 may fit a first-disciple or light session better.
• Thomas 85 at §173: Its saying about Adam and death is placed among end-time sayings in the Olivet Discourse. It has a thematic link but no evident discourse link; review it separately from Thomas 18 and 111.
• Thomas 71 at §158: The present side-by-side placement with John's temple saying remains the most urgent individual integration decision. Neither saying should be silently paraphrased into the other.

Implemented Thomas arrangement — 7 October 2026

The master still has four lettered Thomas-only sections. §68A now groups the light, kingdom, image, life, and spirit sayings, and places the Salome exchange under its own heading. Thomas 50 moved from §75 to §68A; Thomas 61 moved from §61 to §68A; Thomas 85 moved from §173 to §68A. Thomas 74 moved from §68A to §100A so the kingdom-and-light group can end with the Salome exchange. §100A now starts with a sequence on discipleship, the world, death, repose, and oneness. Thomas 60 moved from §112 to §100A; its Samaritan is no longer beside Luke's Good Samaritan. The difficult sayings already in §100A remain under “Other undated sayings,” so none were silently omitted. §183A keeps its eight sayings in the earlier proposed order and now has a heading that states its placement after the farewell discourse without assigning them to that night.

Thomas 71 remains in §158 but stands after the canonical Temple account under a separate undated heading rather than between John's temple saying and the reply to it. Thomas 14 remains in the clearly marked undated mission-associated cluster because its latter part concerns receiving food and healing; its opening words about fasting, prayer, and alms still require an authorial decision. Thomas 12 and 114 remain in §217A for author review. This arrangement is thematic, not a claim that Thomas dates any of these sayings. The manuscript still contains 84 distinct included logia in 82 blue blocks; the canonical narrative wording was preserved.