Parable of the assassin

Parable of the assassin

The parable of the assassin, also known as the parable of the killer, is a parable attributed to Jesus in the non canonical Gospel of Thomas. The passage does not appear in the Gospels of the New Testament.

:"Jesus said, "The kingdom of the father is like a certain man who wanted to kill a powerful man. In his own house he drew his sword and stuck it into the wall in order to find out whether his hand could carry through. Then he slew the powerful man." [http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html G. Thomas 98]

Authenticity

The scholars of the Jesus Seminar gave the parable of the assassin a "pink" rating, indicating that it is in their opinion probably an authentic saying of Jesus. They were influenced by parallels with the parables of the warring king [ According to some of the fellows of the Jesus Seminar, "the story line of the parable originally had to do with Davidic reversal, as in David and Goliath: the little guy bests the big guy by taking the precautions a prudent person would take before encountering the village bully" [Robert Walter Funk and Roy W. Hoover, "The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? the Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus", HarperCollins, 1997, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN006063040X&id=SRI-c0Pf3soC&pg=RA1-PA525&lpg=RA1-PA525&ots=vP-Bse1Hs8&dq=%22parable+of+the+assassin%22&sig=NiYQB6gaCpUu-I-0f2ErfFbcaDE#PRA1-PA525,M1 p. 525] ] . A similar message can been found in the parable of the strong man.

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