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138. The Rediscovered Gospel — A Conversation with Elaine Pagels

Faith Matters

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Are the Secret Teachings of Jesus in the Gospels of Mark and the New Testament?

Nakamari text suggests there may have been esoteric teachings by Jesus that he reserved for his closest disciples. Mark says Jesus taught secretly but he doesn't tell you what he said. The Gospel of Thomas says yes he taught secretly and these are some of the things he said ordinarily a tradition in Jewish tradition from whichJesus comes is that you don't write down secret traditions because they can be easily misunderstood. But somebody wrote them down and I suspect that we have among these so called secret Gospels secret teachings who were not supposed to be written.

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