Logia is a term applied to collections of sayings credited to Jesus and used as source materials by the Gospel writers in the writing of the familiar canonic narrative gospels. The Greek word "logia" means "oracles, divine responses, utterances, or sayings." Some scholars, seeing many similarities between the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke that are not accounted for in the presumed earlier Gospel of Mark believe there existed an earlier source, now lost, termed the Q gospel upon which both Matthew and Luke drew in writing their gospels. Perhaps such a source was a logia, or collection of quotations attributed to Jesus. Jump to: navigation, search Jesus (Greek: Ιησούς, Iēsoûs), also known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, is Christianitys central figure, both as Messiah and, for most Christians, as God incarnate. ... For the genre of Christian-themed music, see gospel music. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Gospel of Matthew (literally: according to Matthew, Greek: Κατα Μαθθαιον) is one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament. ... The Gospel of Luke is the third of the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus life, death, and resurrection. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Gospel of Mark is traditionally the second of the New Testament Gospels. ... The Q document (also called the Q Gospel, the Sayings Gospel Q, the Synoptic Sayings Source, and in the 19th century the Logia) comprises a hypothetical collection of Jesuss sayings, hypothesized in accordance with the two-source hypothesis to be a source of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. ...

The Apostle Paul may have been citing the logia when he spoke of "the words of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 20:35) recording a saying of Jesus not found in any of the four gospels: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Jump to: navigation, search The Twelve Apostles (in Koine Greek απόστολος apostolos [1], someone sent forth/sent out, an emissary) were probably Galilean Jewish men (10 names are Aramaic, 4 names are Greek) chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth by Jesus of Nazareth to preach the Gospel to... Paul is a popular male first name, from the Greek Paulos. ...

Fragments of logia were among Grenfell and Hunt's first season's finds at Oxyrhyncus in 1897. A single leaf of a papyrus codex, written in the first half of the 3rd century, contains a collection of sayings of Jesus (Oxyrhyncus Papyrus 1), each headed "Jesus says". In 1903 a second 3rd century logia fragment, from a papyrus scroll that had been used for an official register, was discovered (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, now British Museum Papyrus 1531 verso). Controversy centered on whether the two fragments formed part of the same work, what authority could be attached to them, and the correct restoration of lacunae in the texts (Bell and Skeat 1935). Oxyrhynchus 654 had a heading which seems to describe the work as a collection of "sayings" addressed to Thomas and some other disciple, and when the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945, it was identified as a Coptic version of these two logia fragments. Thomas contains both alleged quotations from Jesus found in the canonical gospels and many sayings not found elsewhere. There are few remains at Oxyrhynchus to be seen above ground: its treasures lie beneath the sands Oxyrhynchus ( Greek: Οξύρυγχος; sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian Per-Medjed; modern Arabic el-Bahnasa) is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. ... Jump to: navigation, search first page of the Codex Argenteus A codex (Latin for book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. ... Nag Hammâdi is a village in the middle of Egypt, called Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, about 225 kilometres north-west of Aswan with some 30. ... The Gospel of Thomas, completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, is a list of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. ...

External link

• H. Idris Bell and T.C. Skeat, 1935. "The New Gospel Fragments" (British Museum pamphlet).