“... A parallel to Mark 10:13-16 appears in Gos. Thom. §22: Jesus saw infants being nursed. He said to this disciples, “These infants being nursed are like those who enter the kingdom.” They said to him, “If we become children, shall we enter the kingdom?” Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female, and when you put eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then you will enter [the kingdom].” Every indication is that this tradition is a secondary reworking of Synoptic material [...]. The focus in the Gospel of Thomas is ontological and reflects Gnosticism’s preoccupation with cosmogony. Some of the elements are reminiscent of NT passages: “when you make the two one” may reflect Eph 2:15, “that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two”; “when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside” may reflect Matt 23:25-26, “you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity. . . . First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the plate, that the outside also may be clean”; “so that the male not be male nor the female female” may reflect Gal 3:28, “there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus”; “and the above like the below” may reflect John 8:23, “He said to them, ‘You are from below, I am from above’”; and the references to “eye,” “hand,” and “foot” may echo Mark 9:43-47 (“hand,” “foot,” and “eye”). ...”