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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 020 of Thomas Gospel.

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

Gospel of Thomas saying 20 - The parable of the mustard seed.
The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like." He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds. But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky."

"Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like."
To describe the truth of the singularity of existence is difficult. The difficulty of its understanding or acceptance lies in the mind of duality.
The worldly material-oriented mind is fed by the senses, they report many things many objects and much information. The dual mind therefore sees reality as being composed of many existences. How can our universe, our planet, our body, our life, our mind, our entire life experience be held in a non-dual singularity of timeless being?

He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds.”
Jesus uses the mustard seed to emphasise the singularity of completeness of knowledge or information that contains the entire mustard bush or tree.
A single mustard seed is particularly small. Yet it contains the whole existence of a tree.
Not just any tree. This is the entire knowledge and information that will manifest and guide that particular mustard tree roots, that particular mustard plant stem, the mustard plant stem colouring, its unique branch formation, every leaf on every branch and so forth.
Further, that mustard seed contains the knowledge of how tall that tree will grow, how long it will take to mature, how many new mustard seeds it will produce and how long it will live for.

Here, Jesus is telling of the “kingdom of heaven.” For that mustard seed to physically, as it were, become manifest, the knowledge that made the seed manifest had to already exist.
Just as the mustard seed contains the entirety of knowledge that manifests a mustard tree. The kingdom of heaven contains the entirety of knowledge that manifests the mustard seed itself.

The non-dual singularity of existence or the kingdom of heaven or God or the Absolute, is the timeless conscious knowledge of all existence itself.
That mustard seed for that mustard tree with its entirety of lifetime formations, has existed without beginning and will continue to exist timelessly as knowledge and information as the Absolute.
The very mustard seed that Jesus held in the palm of his hand has always existed. And, to this day still exists with the Divine Absolute or God. And so also does the entire knowledge "for birds of the sky."   of each bird or sparrow that nested in that particular mustard tree on that particular branch.
“The kingdom of heaven” is the conscious singularity of knowledge within which our true being timelessly exists.

All verses of the Thomas Gospel.

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