“ For when you leave the pains and the passions of the body, you will receive rest from the Good One, and you will rule with the king, you united with him and he united with you, from now on, for ever and ever. ”

“ It is written in a certain gospel, which is called according to the Hebrews, if yet it pleases one to accept it, not as an authority, but as a manifestation of the proposed question: The second of the rich men said unto him: Master, what good thing can I do and live? He said unto him: O man, do that which is in the law and the prophets. He answered him: I have kept them. He said unto him: Go, sell all that you own and distribute it to the poor, and come, follow me. But the rich man began to scratch his head, and it pleased him not. ”

“ A somewhat similar statement is found from Clement of Alexandria: "Being baptized, we are illuminated; illuminated we become sons; being made sons, we are made perfect; being made perfect, we are made immortal." ”

“ There is a parallel to this saying in the oracle from the cult of Simon Magus that Eusebius describes:
And the most unspoken of these [rites] of theirs, of which they say that the one hearing them for the first time will be astonished, and according to a certain written oracle among them will be made to marvel, happen of a truth to be full of marvel and ecstatic thoughts and mania... (History of the Church 2.13.7) There is also a parallel in the Gospel of Thomas:
Jesus said: He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds ”

“ In the gospel of the Nazoraeans the reason is given for John having been known to the priest. It was because when he was the son of the poor fisherman Zebedee he often ported fishes to the curias of the priests. (From the History of the Passion of the Lord, folio 35 recto, concerning the Peter and John in the court of the high priest) It is read in the gospel of the Nazoraeans that the gladiators appropriated four soldiers to scourge the Lord hard enough to [cause] an effusion of blood from his entire body. ”

“ And he turned and said unto Simon his disciple, who was sitting by him: Simon, son of Jonah, it is easier for a camel to enter in by the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. (From Origen, in the Latin version of On Matthew 15.14) The church has four gospels, heresy many, from among which a certain one is written according to the Egyptians, another according to the twelve apostles. Even Basilides dared to write a gospel and to entitle it by his own name. ”

“ Clement of Alexandria Which also is written in the gospel according to the Hebrews: He who marveled shall reign, and he who reigned shall rest. (Miscellanies 2.9) For those things can be the same as these: He who seeks shall not cease until he finds, and finding he shall marvel, and having marveled he shall reign, and having reigned he shall rest. ”

“ Furthermore, this Hebraic [text] is held even until today in the Caesarean library which Pamphilus the martyr studiously put together. There was an opportunity for me from the Nazoraeans to copy this volume, which is used in Beroea, a city of Syria. In which [gospel] it must be noted that, wherever the evangelist, whether from his own person or from the Lord and savior, makes use of testimonies of the old scriptures, he does not follow the authority of the seventy translators, but the Hebrew. ”

“ My brother, eat your bread, because the son of man has resurrected from among those who sleep. (On Famous Men 2) Matthew, who is also Levi, the ex-publican apostle, first composed in Hebraic letters the gospel of Christ in Judea on account of those who had believed from among the circumcision ”

“ Fifth Fragment ... he is set down among the greatest criminals who hath grieved the spirit of his brother. [6]
Sixth Fragment And when the Lord had given his linen cloth to the servant of the priest he went to James and appeared unto him. For James had sworn that he would not eat bread from that hour wherein he had drunk the cup of the Lord until he saw him rising again from the dead. ”

“ The Judaic [gospel has] : And he denied and swore and cursed. (Marginal gloss at Matthew 26.74, miniscules 4, 273, 566, 899, and 1424) The Judaic [gospel has] : And he delivered to them armed men, in order to be seated right before the cave and keep it day and night. (Marginal gloss at Matthew 27.65, miniscule 1424) Petrus de Riga In the books of the gospels that the Nazoraeans use it is read that rays issued from his eyes, by which terrified they were put to flight. ”