From dcedor5@airmail.net Thu Aug 13 12:38:29 1998 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:46:43 -0500 From: D Cedor To: crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com Subject: Re: Thomas Q project [ Part 1, Text/PLAIN 137 lines. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] For those who want to play the game, here are the full texts to the first of Stevan's lists: Cedor  1) Q1  6:20      Th 54 LUKE:  Congratulations, you poor! God's domain belongs to you. MATT:  Congratulations to the poor in spirit! Heaven's domain belongs to them. THOM:  Congratulations to the poor, for to you belongs Heaven's domain.  2) Q1  6:21      Th 69b LUKE: Congratulations, you hungry! You will have a feast. Congratulations, you who weep now! You will laugh. MATT: Congratulations to those who hunger and thirst for justice! They will have a feast. THOM: Congratulations to those who go hungry, so the stomach of the one in want may be filled.  3) Q1  6:23      Th 68 LUKE: Rejoice on that day, and jump for joy! Just remember, your compensation is great in heaven.  Recall that their ancestors treated the prophets the same way. MATT: Rejoice and be glad! Your compensation is great in heaven. Recall that this is how they persecuted the prophets who preceded you. THOM: Congratulations to you when you are hated and persecuted; and no place will be found, wherever you have been persecuted.  4) Q1  6:23      Th 69a LUKE: Rejoice on that day, and jump for joy! Just remember, your compensation is great in heaven.  Recall that their ancestors treated the prophets the same way. MATT: Rejoice and be glad! Your compensation is great in heaven. Recall that this is how they persecuted the prophets who preceded you. THOM: Congratulations to those who have been persecuted in their hearts: they are they ones who have truly come to know the Father.  5) Q1  6:30      Th 95[K?] LUKE: Give to everyone who begs from you; and when someone takes your things, don't ask for them back. MATT: Give to the one who begs from you; and don't turn away the one who tries to borrow from you. THOM: If you have money, don't lend it at interest. Rather, give [it] to someone from whom you won't get it back.  6) Q1  6:31      Th 6b LUKE: Treat people the way you want them to treat you. MATT: Treat people in ways you want them to treat you. This sums up the whole of the Law and the Prophets. THOM: Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that won't be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed.  7)   [15:13Mt]   Th 40[P] (no basis for comparison, so useless) [Stevan's words]  8) Q1  6:39      Th 34 LUKE: Can one blind person guide another? Won't they both end up in some ditch? MATT: If one blind person guides another, both will end up in some ditch. THOM: If a blind person leads a blind person, both of them will fall into a hole.  9) Q1  6:44-45   Th 43 LUKE: For each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles. The good person produces good from the fund of good in the heart, and the evil person produces evil from the evil within. As you know, the mouth gives voice to what the heart is full of. MATT: Remember, you'll know who they are by what they produce. If you make the tree choice, its fruit will be choice; if you make the tree rotten, its fruit will be rotten. After all, the tree is known by its fruit. You spawn of Satan, how can your speech be good when you are corrupt? As you know, the mouth gives voice to what the heart is full of. The good person produces good things out of a fund of good; and the evil person produces evil things out of a fund of evil. THOM: You don't understand who I am from what I say to you. Rather, you have become like the Judeans, for they love the tree but hate its fruit, or they love the fruit but hate the tree.   10) Q1  6:44-45   Th 45 LUKE: For each tree is known by its fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles. The good person produces good from the fund of good in the heart, and the evil person produces evil from the evil within. As you know, the mouth gives voice to what the heart is full of. MATT: Remember, you'll know who they are by what they produce. If you make the tree choice, its fruit will be choice; if you make the tree rotten, its fruit will be rotten. After all, the tree is known by its fruit. You spawn of Satan, how can your speech be good when you are corrupt? As you know, the mouth gives voice to what the heart is full of. The good person produces good things out of a fund of good; and the evil person produces evil things out of a fund of evil. THOM: Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they yield no fruit. Good persons produce good from what they've stored up; bad persons produce evil from the wickedness they've stored up in their hearts, and say evil things. For from the overflow of the heart they produce evil. 11) Q2  7:24      Th 78 LUKE: What did you go out to the wilderness to gawk at? A reed shaking in the wind? MATT: What did you go out to the wilderness to gawk at? A reed shaking in the wind? THOM: Why have you come out to the countryside? To see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a person dressed in soft clothes, [like your] rulers and your powerful ones? They are dressed in soft clothes, and they cannot understand truth. Enjoy! Oh, the text is from The Complete Gospels. (Used without permission, but not bad advertising, huh?) David Cedor