Saying 31: Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician heals those who know him”.
Meaning: Here Jesus relates himself to the prophets. The people, who Jesus grew up around, could not accept that he was so special. They had become too familiar with him and saw him as an ordinary person.
A physician is a healer and all healing requires an amount of faith from the person being healed. It is a thing that would be absent in close acquaintances.
Saying 32: Jesus said, "A city being built on a high mountain and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden”.
Meaning: The city was the New Testament. The high mountain was the Old Testament. The fortification was Truth.
Comment: The Truth still stands today though many have tried to hide it, lest it take away their power and reveal their iniquity.
Saying 33: Jesus said, "Preach from your housetops that which you will hear in your ear. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a lamp stand so that everyone who enters and leaves will see its light."
Meaning: Jesus was telling the people not to keep his teachings to themselves, but rather to pass them on to others and to let them see the change it has made to you.
Saying 34: Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a pit."
Meaning: If a person, who is spiritually blind, leads a person who seeks enlightenment, then they will both find spiritual death.
Saying 35: Jesus said, "It is not possible for anyone to enter the house of a strong man and take it by force unless he binds his hands; then he will (be able to) ransack his house."
Meaning: Jesus was referring to the religious teachers. He could not take over their temple by force, but when they tested him with questions, his replies left them silent and defenceless. He was then able to discredit the way they were misleading the people.
Saying 36: Jesus said, "Do not be concerned from morning until evening and from evening until morning about what you will wear”.
Meaning: This saying can be found in its full context in Mathew 6. Jesus explains that the soul is more important than the body and the body more important than the clothes. Also that one should have faith in God to provide.
Saying 37: His disciples said, "When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?" Jesus said, "When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then will you see the son of the living one, and you will not be afraid"
Meaning: ‘Clothes’ refer to the physical body. ‘Without being ashamed’ refers to innocence. When you come to know yourself as a soul, you realise that your physical body is not a part of the self, it is like clothes. This saying does not refer to the death of the physical body; it is the point of enlightenment. That point where you realise full awareness of yourself and what you are. You realise that your body is not you or even a part of you and you stand in innocence, separate from your body and the world. It is then that you see the son of the living one, which you are a part of, and is a part of you.
Saying 38: Jesus said, "Many times have you desired to hear these words which I am saying to you, and you have no one else to hear them from. There will be days when you will look for me and will not find me."
Meaning: There was no-one else that could reveal God’s knowledge to the disciples. There would be days, but not every day, when the disciples would be without a spiritual connection to Jesus. It did not only refer to the days that he was on earth in physical form.
Saying 39: Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge (gnosis) and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves."
Meaning: The Pharisees and scribes had hidden God’s word from the people, just as it was hidden from the followers who later formed his church. You see, Jesus’ teachings are unacceptable by those who are ‘of the world’, because you cannot follow the teachings of Jesus and retain wealth and power, you cannot kill or hate or cause others to do so, you cannot withhold forgiveness, you cannot put others needs before your own, you cannot love your enemy,’ you cannot worship God and mammon’. Do you see what I mean?
How can a person exult themselves, wear fine robes and take from others to build fine temples and fill them with worldly treasure, while there are the sick, hungry and poor outside their door?
So you see, the Truth was hidden from the people, because in it is the revelation of those without God’s word.
And so it is that Jesus told his disciples to go as wise as the serpent, (the Pharisees and scribes) and to remain in innocence (be not of the world).
Saying 40: Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted outside of the father, but being unsound, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed”.
Meaning: ‘The grapevine’ referred to the teachings of the Pharisees and scribes.