Logia

Logia or Germanized logia (Greek: λόγια, singular: λόγιον, logion ) means " expressions ", " talk " or " sayings ". Thus, the sayings of Jesus are referred to, particularly in the New Testament scholarship. Was derived from the name Sayings Source Q ( or " spell source Q ", abbreviated to "Q " ) for a suspected collection of sayings of Jesus.

Except Evangelical Jesus words ( Agrapha )

The apostle Paul quotes " in remembering the words the Lord Jesus, " the saying: "It is more blessed to give than to receive" ( Acts 20:35 EU). This saying has been handed down in any of the four Gospels.

Fragments of a larger collection of sayings were recovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in their first dig at Oxyrhynchus 1897. A single sheet of a papyrus codex, written in the first half of the 3rd century, contains a collection of sayings of Jesus ( Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1). Each begins with " Jesus says ." 1903, a second fragment from the 3rd century was discovered by a scroll that had been used for a public register ( Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, now in the British Museum Papyrus 1531, verso). The controversy focused on whether the two fragments are part of the same work, and whether the gaps in the text were restored correctly. Oxyrhynchus 654 had a headline which apparently describes the work as a collection of sayings that are addressed to Thomas and some other students. As at Nag Hammadi in 1945, the Gospel of Thomas was discovered, they were identified as the Coptic version of these two fragments. The Gospel of Thomas contains the one Jesus words that appear in the canonical Gospels, but in a modified form. On the other hand, the agreement includes many sayings that are nowhere else preserved.