The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?

"We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

Upon this Thomas, who was called "The Twin," said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, that we may die with him."