This book opens with the lines, "These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and the twin, Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down." Then there follows a list of the sayings of Jesus.

But, into this common narrative outline, Matthew and Luke each insert extra sayings and teachings of Jesus. And although Matthew and Luke do not put these sayings in the same order, nevertheless ...

Traditionally called “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” these words are really phrases. So I decided to pare down to one word ...

Sinai in the book of Exodus. Many scholars accept the Two-Source Theory, that Matthew and Luke used the gospel of Mark and a hypothetical collection of Jesus' sayings called Q as sources.