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LogiaLogia is a term applied to collections of sayings credited to Jesus and used as source materials by the Gospel writers in the writing of their gospels. The Greek word "logia literally means "oracles, divine responses, utterances, or sayings." Some scholars see many similarities between the Gospel of Matthew, and the Gospel of Luke. They believe there existed an earlier source, now lost, upon which both Matthew and Luke drew in writing their gospels. Perhaps such a source was the logia, or collection of quotations attributed to Jesus. When the Apostle Paul spoke of "the words of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 20:35) he quoted a saying of Jesus not found in any of the four gospels. He may have been citing a quotation from the logia: "It is more blessed to give then receive." An example of this type of literature, containing alleged quotations from Jesus not found in the canonical gospels, is the Gospel of Thomas, an early Apocryphal gospel.
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