This work collects all the statements attributed to Jesus in the four conventional gospels and the Gospel of Thomas. As in a conventional "Harmony of the Gospels" presentation, parallel statements from each gospel are set side by side. However, in this work, the statements are also organized by topic for easier study. Christians may find this an unusually useful arrangement for studying Christ's teachings.
However, students of comparative religions will find an added benefit, in that most subject areas end with related quotes from other religious traditions. The tracking down of these parallels is an ongoing process, and I would appreciate any suggested additions that you can send me.
Doing Good Works |
Keep My Commandments The Universal Judgement Make a Feast for the Poor Keep the Commandments Do Unto Others The Good Samaritan Whoever Shall Receive One of Such Children The Unjust Steward The Poor Widow |
Service |
Who Among Us Shall Be the Greatest We Are Unprofitable Servants The Chiefest Shall Be the Servant of All Jesus Washes the Apostles Feet |
Works and Judgement |
Every Man According to His Works Whatsoever You Shall Loose On Earth It is Not Enough to Say Lord The House Built Upon a Rock Every Idle Word Two Sons and the Vineyard Blessed is the Womb that Bare Thee Do Not Do What You Hate Whosoever Offends One of These Little Ones Woe To Him Through Whom Offences Come |
Earthly Treasures |
Become Passers-By Whoever Has Known the World Let Him Who Has Power Renounce It Whoever Has Found the World One Cannot Serve Two Masters The Camel and the Eye of the Needle Lay Not Up Treasures Upon Earth Who Made Me a Divider The Rich Man's Barns Consider the Lillies How They Grow Of Him the World is Not Worthy |
Fret Not About Worldly Things |
The Lillies of the Field The Very Hairs of Your Head |
The Last Shall Be First |
Blessed Are the Poor Blessed Are They That Mourn Blessed Are Ye That Weep Blessed Are the Meek Blessed Are the Hungry Blessed Are the Merciful Blessed Are the Pure in Heart Blessed Are the Peacemakers Blessed Are the Persecuted Blessed is the Man Who Has Suffered Blessed Are Those Persecuted in Their Heart Woe Unto You The Last Shall Be First For He That Hath, To Him Shall Be Given The Stone That The Builder Refused |
Sacrifice |
Take Up the Cross He That Saveth His Life Shall Lose It In Exchange for His Soul Whosever Shall Be Ashamed of Me Forsake All that You Have Fear Not Them Which Kill the Body Who Forsakes Shall Receive an Hundredfold |
Resist Not Evil |
Resist Not Evil Now Take Up Again Purse, and Scrip, and Sword Render Unto Caesar Of Whom Do the Kings Take Tribute |
Seek and You Will Find |
When He Finds He Will Be Troubled Now I Desire to Tell Them My Yoke is Easy |
Marriage and Family |
What God Hath Joined Together Whosoever Putteth Away His Wife Celibacy There Is No Marriage In Heaven Behold My Mother and My Brethren I Came Not to Send Peace Let the Dead Bury Their Dead Having Put Hand to Plow, Do Not Look Back But One Thing Is Needful |
Instructions for Prayer |
The Lords Prayer Believe That Ye Receive Ask And It Shall Be Given The Friend at Midnight Ask The Father in My Name Where Two or Three Are Gathered Use Not Vain Repetitions |
Legalism and Its Perils |
Not One Jot Or Tittle This People Honoreth Me With Their Lips For Moses Said Honor Thy Father and Mother The Things Which Defile Their Father Would Beget Them Circumsized If You Fast Not From the World If You Fast, You Will Beget Sins Cleanse First the Inside of the Cup Woe Unto You Lawyers Beware of the Scribes The Keys of Knowledge The Dog in the Manger |
False Leaders |
Can the Blind Lead the Blind |
The Sabbath |
Lord Also of the Sabbath Is it Lawful to Do Good on the Sabbath The Arthritic Woman The Man With Dropsy The Paralytic at the Pool |
Spiritual Pride and Humility |
Ye Justify Yourselves Before Men Do Not After Their Works Be Not Ye Called Rabbi Ye Strain At a Gnat, And Swallow a Camel Whited Sepulchres Fill Ye Up the Measure of Your Fathers Lazarus and the Rich Man Whosoever Shall Swear By the Altar Swear Not at All Let Not Thy Left Hand Know Pray to Thy Father in Secret Fast Not With Sad Countenance Taking the Lowest Place The Pharisee and the Publican Beware the Leaven of the Pharisees |
Materialism in the Church |
My House Shall Be The House of Prayer |
Love the Greatest Commandment |
The Great Commandment Love Your Enemies A New Commandment I Give |
Even Your Thoughts Are Judged |
Adultery in the Heart |
Forgive Thy Brother |
Be Reconciled to Thy Brother Brotherly Forgiveness Forgive Until Seventy Times Seven The Merciless Servant The Uttermost Farthing |
Judge Not |
Judge Not The Mote in Thy Brother's Eye The Woman Taken in Adultery |
Faith and Patience |
Faith and the Sycamine Tree Possess Your Souls in Patience The Three Year Old Fig Tree |
Childhood Insight |
Become As Little Children Suffer the Little Children Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings When You Take Off Your Clothing |
Avoid Temptation |
And if Thy Hand Offend Thee, Cut It Off The Light of the Body is the Eye |
Temptations of Power |
In the Wilderness forty days Man shall not live by bread alone Thou Shalt Not Tempt the Lord Thy God Get Thee Hence Satan |
Relapsing from the Path |
He Walketh Through Dry Places |
To Be Born Again |
The Spirit of God descending like a dove Spiritual Rebirth The Wealth That Makes its Home in Poverty The Man and the Lion Seek a Place in Repose The Flesh Which Depends Upon the Soul The Body Which Depends Upon a Body |
Divine Judgment |
For Judgment I am Come Into This World The Tares A Vine Planted Without the Father The Seed that Bears I Appoint Unto You a Kingdom |
Forgiveness |
The Parable of the Creditor The Woman Who Sinned I Came Not to Call the Righteous The Strayed Lamb The Lost Piece of Silver The Prodigal Son The Wages of the Vineyard Workers Zaccheus |
Divine Retribution |
The Widow and the Judge The Men of Nineveh Shall Rise in Judgment Sinners Above All the Galileans O Jerusalem, Jerusalem Woe Unto Thee Chorazin and Bethsaida |
Many Are Called But Few Chosen |
The Wedding Feast Blessed Are the Solitary and Elect Strait is the Gate Many Around the Cistern Many Are At the Door I Know You Not Whence You Are |
Predestination |
The Father Must Draw Them to Me |
Jesus' Itineracy |
Foxes Have Holes and Birds Have Nests |
Rejection of the Message |
In the Midst of the World No Prophet is Accepted In His Own Country Light is Come Into the World Ye Are Of Your Father the Devil |
While On Earth |
Can the Children of the Bridechamber Mourn Blessed Are the Eyes That See Walk While Ye Have the Light Look Upon the Living One Near to the Fire You Have Dismissed the Living One She Hath Wrought a Good Work On Me |
Servant of the Father |
How is it that ye sought me? The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me Let Us Go Into the Next Towns I Speak The Things I Have Heard of My Father I Do What Pleases My Father I Have Not Spoken Of Myself I Have Manifested Thy Name Not My Will, But Thy Will My Doctrine is Not Mine The Son Can Do Nothing Of Himself He Hath Sent Me |
The Only Begotten Son |
No Man Hath Ascended Up to Heaven For God So Loved the World God Sent His Son to Save the World |
I And the Father Are One |
Why Callest Thou Me Good Who Serves Me Honours the Father I in Them and Thou in Me Now I Tell You Before It Come I And My Father Are One I Am in the Father, and the Father in Me Before Abraham Was, I Am He That Believeth On Me They Have No Cloak for Their Sin Father, Glorify Thy Son In the Beginning Was the Word |
Judge |
The Son Quickeneth Whom He Will I Judge No Man Not to Destroy, But to Save |
The Light of the World |
I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life I am the Light of the World I Am the Resurrection and the Life Dost Thou Believe on the Son of God If Any Man Thirst Whoever Drinks From My Mouth Who Finds the Explanation of These Words I Am Not Of This World Him Will I Confess Also Before My Father By What Authority Whosoever Drinketh of This Water I Have Meat That Ye Know Not Of He That Is Not Against Us He That is Not With Me All Things Are Delivered Unto Me I Am the Bread of Life I Am The Good Shepherd I Am the True Vine It is the Spirit that Quickeneth Whom Do Men Say That I Am Whom Say Ye That I Am The Stones Would Cry Out He Was Transfigured Before Them I Pray For Them Thou Hast Given Me I Pray For Those Which Shall Believe On Me I Have Cast Fire Upon the World |
The Last Supper |
This is My Body and Blood |
The Apostles |
I Will Make You Fishers Of Men What Seek Ye? Thou Shalt Be Called Cephas Follow Me Behold an Israelite Indeed Thou Shalt See Greater Things Than These Follow Me |
Selective Teaching |
With Parables Spake He I Will Open My Mouth In Parables Casting Pearls Before Swine I Tell My Mysteries To Those Who Are Worthy Unto You It Is Given I Thank Thee, O Father A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends I Shall Speak No More in Proverbs |
The Receptiveness of the Disciple |
The Sower |
Master and Disciple |
Suffer it to be so now The Disciple and the Master You Shall Do Greater Works Than These The Spirits are Subject to You |
Missionary Work |
The Harvest is Great One Soweth and Another Reapeth The Light Nothing Covered That Shall Not Be Revealed Ye Are the Light of the World We Have Come From the Light The Workman is Worthy There Abide Till Ye Go Thence The Salt of the Earth Lambs Among Wolves Ye Shall Be Hated of All Men If the World Hate You The World Hath Hated Them He That Heareth You Heareth Me |
Gentiles and Jews |
Go Not Into the Way of the Gentiles It Is Not Meet to Take the Childrens Bread |
John the Baptist |
Go and Show John A Reed Shaken With the Wind The Least in the Kingdom is Greater Children Sitting in the Marketplace Elias is Indeed Come |
Those Which Bear Witness To Me |
Though I Bear Record Of Myself My Father Beareth Witness Of Me John Beareth Witness Of Me My Works Bear Witness Of Me The Father Hath Borne Witness Of Me The Scriptures Testify Of Me |
Every Tree is Known By Its Fruit |
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them A Kingdom Divided Against Itself The House of a Strong Man To Blaspheme Against the Holy Ghost Warning Against False Prophets |
Healings |
The Woman Who Bled The Deaf Mute Go Wash in the Pool of Siloam The Leper Nor Tell It to Any See Thou Say Nothing to Any Man According to Your Faith The Centurions Son Son Thy Sins Be Forgiven Take Up Thy Bed and Walk Neither Hath This Man Sinned The Ten Lepers Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole |
The Excorcisms |
Hold Thy Peace and Come Out of Him The Man Possessed at Gergesa The Epileptic Boy |
Resurrections |
Be not afraid, only believe The Widows Son Lazarus, Come Forth |
Food and Drink |
Water Into Wine First Miracle of the Loaves Second Miracle of the Loaves Ye Did Eat of the Loaves |
Control of the Weather and Elements |
The Tempest Calmed Jesus Walks on the Water |
Blasting the Fig Tree |
No Man Eat Fruit of Thee Hereafter The Withered Fig Tree |
Mysterious Passover Preparations |
Preparations for the Passover |
Transport Provided Fortuitously |
The Entry into Jerusalem |
Christ Not the Son of David |
How Say They That Christ is David's Son? |
Resurrection |
The God of the Living |
Jesus Prophecies About Himself |
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan After Three Days I Will Rise A Little While and Ye Shall Not See Me Wither I Go, Ye Cannot Come One of You Shall Betray Me After Two Days is the Passover The Son of Man Must be Lifted Up But First He Must Suffer Many Things If It Die, It Bringeth Forth Much Fruit The Wicked Husbandmen The Son of Man Shall Be Betrayed Delivered Into the Hands of Men In Three Days I Will Raise It Up Will Ye Also Go Away I Testify of the Evil of the World Herod Will Kill Thee Now is My Soul Troubled Can Ye Drink of the Cup I Drink Of A House of Many Mansions |
Peace I Leave With You |
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled |
Comments During the Passion |
The Spirit is Ready, But the Flesh is Weak Sleep On Now Betrayest Thou The Son Of Man Whom Seek Ye? They That Take Up the Sword Are Ye Come Out As Against a Thief Ye Shall See The Son of Man I Spake Openly to the World If I Have Spoken Evil Thou Sayest It Herod Questions Jesus Thou Couldest Have No Power Father Forgive Them Today Thou Shalt Be With Me Woman, Behold Thy Son I Thirst Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani It is Finished |
Comments After Resurrection |
Woman, Why Weepest Thou? The Appearances Ye Shall Be Baptized With the Holy Ghost |
Prophecies About the Apostles |
The Warning to Peter Ye Shall Be Scattered You Will Go to James the Righteous |
The Holy Ghost |
The Comforter I Must Depart to Send the Comforter |
Signs and Portents |
No Sign Shall Be Given Can Ye Not Discern the Signs of the Times When These Signs Come to Pass |
Prophecy About Calamities |
I Shall Destroy This House O Jerusalem, Jerusalem There Shall Not Be Left One Stone Upon Another Thine Enemies Shall Cast a Trench About Thee They Have Moses and the Prophets Wars and Rumors of Wars The Abomination of Desolation Woe to Them That Are With Child Blessed Are the Barren Many Shall Come in My Name As the Days of Noah Were He Shall Gather Together His Elect One Shall Be Taken, and the Other Left I Beheld Satan as Lightning He That Endures Unto the End This Generation Shall Not Pass |
About the Kingdom |
Those Who Will See the Kingdom |
Be Prepared |
Wilt Thou Restore the Kingdom? None Knows the Day or the Hour Ye Know Not When the Master Cometh A Wise and Faithful Servant For as a Snare Shall It Come The Neglectful Servant In What Watch the Thief Would Come The Ten Virgins With Lamps |
The Truth |
The Truth Shall Make You Free |
The New Way |
New Cloth on an Old Garment New Wine in Old Bottles |
The Kingdom of God |
The Kingdom of God is at hand Preach Saying the Kingdom is at Hand The Mustard Seed The Leaven The Woman Who Drops Grain The Treasure in the Field The Pearl of Great Price The Swordsman's Practicing The Fish The Strongbox The Talents The Kingdom of God is Within You What You Expect Has Come |
The Hidden Light |
I Am the All The Images Are Manifest to Man |
The Light Within |
Whoever Knows the All If You Bring Forth That Within Yourselves He That is the Same |
Miscellaneous |
The Beginning and the End Blessed Is He Who Was Release to Us Our Field Give to the Angels and Prophets The Son of a Harlot You Test the Face of the Sky She Too May Become a Living Spirit Him Who Was Not Born of Woman When You Have Become Two When You See Your Likeness Adam Would Not Have Tasted Death |
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