Jesus said, “One can’t enter a strong person’s house and take it by force without tying his hands. [Only] Then one can loot his house.”

The Gospel of Thomas, Saying 35.

The image (http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/nha/id/1492) is of the rock beneath which the Nag Hammadi documents were found in 1945 inside a sealed jar. The Gospel of Thomas is one of several early Christian documents found inside.

In the background is the face of the cliff known as Jabal al-Tarif near the extreme edge of the Nile River’s flood plain.