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1. The term Bishop is in the King James Bible. Check 1 Timothy 3:1 where St. Paul says: "This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work".
Link to an online version: http://www.cforc.com/kjv/1_Timothy/index.html
It's been used in Christian literature for some time to discribe the early leaders of the Church in Jerusalem and elsewhere. You can check the terms commonality by typing "symeon bishop jerusalem" into Google if you don't belive me. Repeat for the other early Bishops
2. The Gospel of Thomas is not part of the Bible but is a separate document of which 3 specimens survive. Two fragments, written in Greek, were found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt about 100 years ago. The only complete text was found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 and is a Coptic translation discovered among a ton of early gnostic writings. The Oxyrhynchus fragments date to 140 AD, making them among the oldest early Christian writings.
Thomas is unlikely to make it into the Bible though as it differs from the other Gospels in that instead of a story of the Passion it is a list of some of Jesus's sayings, some of which the compilers of the Bible (and their sucessors) would not necessarily approve of. Even so much of it correlates nicely to John and Mark.
Cross-linked online versions of all 5 Gospels (Bibles 4 + Thomas): 5 Gospels
Dr. Mordrid
1. The term Bishop is in the King James Bible. Check 1 Timothy 3:1 where St. Paul says: "This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work".
Link to an online version: http://www.cforc.com/kjv/1_Timothy/index.html
It's been used in Christian literature for some time to discribe the early leaders of the Church in Jerusalem and elsewhere. You can check the terms commonality by typing "symeon bishop jerusalem" into Google if you don't belive me. Repeat for the other early Bishops
2. The Gospel of Thomas is not part of the Bible but is a separate document of which 3 specimens survive. Two fragments, written in Greek, were found at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt about 100 years ago. The only complete text was found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 and is a Coptic translation discovered among a ton of early gnostic writings. The Oxyrhynchus fragments date to 140 AD, making them among the oldest early Christian writings.
Thomas is unlikely to make it into the Bible though as it differs from the other Gospels in that instead of a story of the Passion it is a list of some of Jesus's sayings, some of which the compilers of the Bible (and their sucessors) would not necessarily approve of. Even so much of it correlates nicely to John and Mark.
Cross-linked online versions of all 5 Gospels (Bibles 4 + Thomas): 5 Gospels
Dr. Mordrid
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