“... This is a saying with a great number of parallels. Much about the relationships among the extant sources remains obscure. Some points are accessible, however. Prior to Thomas, there probably existed a free-floating idiomatic Jewish saying about ‘what eye had not seen’, etc. This was constructed from raw materials in Isa. 64.3 + 65.16. This Jewish saying surfaces independently in Pseudo-Philo (LAB 26.13) and Paul (1 Cor. 2.9). It is modified by Paul in a soteriological direction, and this exerts an influence upon—among others—Thomas. [...] I will give you. In contrast to Ps.-Philo and Paul, Thomas attributes this saying, and the action of granting the hidden blessings, specifically to Jesus. The wording here is paralleled in one Manichaean text (M 789). As Trevijano Etcheverría has noted, this move by Thomas parallels the pattern seen in Hebrews and Justin Martyr of putting scriptural language into the mouth of Jesus. What eye has not seen, and what ear has not heard, and what hand has not touched, nor has it ascended to the heart of man. The point of interest here is the reference to the ‘hand’, not found in Ps.-Philo or Paul, or other second-century references to the formula. ...”