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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 057 of Thomas Gospel.

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

Gospel of Thomas Saying 57 - A parable of wheat and tares
Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a man who had good seed. His enemy came by night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The man did not allow them to pull up the weeds; he said to them, 'I am afraid that you will go intending to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.' “For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be plainly visible, and they will be pulled up and burned."

“he kingdom of the father is like a man who had good seed”
The kingdom, or the father or the Absolute or God is the knowledge that is the seed for all desires.

“His enemy came by night and sowed weeds among the good seed”
The kingdom or God is the singularity of existence alone. This means there can be no other, no duality. This means of course that God can have no enemy. This is stated for reference.

The meaning here is that all beings are a reflexion of the divine, described by Jesus as “good seed” meaning that all beings have within them the nature to mature to the full realisation of their true divine nature, and so return home to God, described here as “the harvest”

But, some of us remain in the darkness ( “night” ) of ignorance of their true divine nature or goodness longer than others. They are the ones whose worldly desires lead them further into materiality. This darkness or ignorance, causes a preference for the world rather than the kingdom of God. Here those suffering from such ignorance are described as weeds. Through their ignorance they become enemies to themselves (therefore to God because their true nature is one with God).

“The man did not allow them to pull up the weeds; he said to them, 'I am afraid that you will go intending to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.”
We are all Gods children or seeds. We all experience a life according to our desires. Some gain enlightenment and freedom from their ignorance in this life. Some others take longer to renounce the world and seek enlightenment. Yet again, some others do not realise their true identity with the Absolute or God or the Kingdom in this life. They cling to their desires for the world and an ongoing material experience.
With all of us, our true desires will not become known until our death or harvest. Until that time comes we have the choice, in consciousness, of the world or God. Meaning, until our time of death we cannot be confirmed as either weed or wheat ( “pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.” )

“For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be plainly visible, and they will be pulled up and burned.”
Jesus’ meaning is that we have an entire life experience of desire. Right up to our experience of death we can still come to desire our return home to unity with God the Absolute.
Or we can continue with the desire for the transient world with its inevitable burning decay and entropy.

All verses of the Thomas Gospel.

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