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The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is extra to the canonical gospels in the New Testament of the bible. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried and hidden after the declaration of a strict canon of Christian scripture, where any works that were not selected for inclusion in the new testament were ordered to be destroyed. Scholars have proposed dates of composition as early as 60 AD and as late as 250 AD as a collection of sayings of Jesus.

Our Commentary on Verse 012 of Thomas Gospel.

These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.

Gospel of Thomas Saying 12 - The disciples will come to James the righteous.
The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you will depart from us. Who is to be our leader?" Jesus said to them, "Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."

"Wherever you are, you are to go to James the righteous”
Jesus loved his disciples. Jesus also loved James of course. But at that time Jesus knew that his brother James was sceptical, at best, of Jesus’ claims to divine knowledge, therefore of his teachings also. James’s past criticisms of Jesus included :-
"Jesus is a sinner just like me, how can he be the son of God?" And "how can my brother, with whom I grew up with be the son of God?"
With an understanding limited to just this much, James displayed a lack of higher understanding. Particularly to the nature of sin and judgement. Further, overall, James’s understanding was mired in the ignorance of duality. James had no notion of the nondual reality of existence. In this respect James was like most other people at that time. After all, this was the reason Jesus came to us.

So why would Jesus send his disciples to be led by James? Well, we know that James the righteous was a good man, so he could be relied on to do his best for the disciples. It must also be true that Jesus hoped or predicted that James would eventually “come into the light” and see the truth of Jesus’ teachings for himself. In fact, James’s realisation did come about at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion.

“for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
This salutation supports our assumptions above. ”Heaven and earth coming into being” marked the downfall, in Consciousness, from the truth and Bliss of divine immortality to the experience of our present state of duality, desire, sickness, pain and death. Jesus’ salutation to James was a caveat for those with the ears to hear, as it were.

For a further indication of Jesus’ real meaning here see the above verse (11)…
Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away".

All verses of the Thomas Gospel.

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