title: Thomas, the Other Gospel
author:  Nicholas Perrin 
description: <b>Nicholas Perrin</b> is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of <i>Thomas and Tatian: The Relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Diatessaron</i> and coeditor of <i>Questioning Q</i>.
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  # The Gospel of Philip: A New Translation
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Introduction
  
  
  ### What is the Gospel of Philip?
  
  
  The _Gospel of Philip_
  
  
  is an ancient **Christian**
  
  
  _Apocryphal_
  
  
  _Gospel_
  
  
  . It is not a "narrative" Gospel, telling the story of Jesus Christ, but
  instead appears more like a "Sayings Gospel" such as the better known _Gospel
  of Thomas_
  
  
  or the hypothetical “ _Sayings Gospel Q_
  
  
  .” The _Gospel of Philip_
  
  
  was treated by early Church fathers as a heretical, gnostic text. Epiphanius
  (d. 403 CE) and others discussed an " _Evangelium Philippus_
  
  
  ," and there are additional independent attestations of this book mentioned by
  Timotheus of Constantinople and by Psuedo-Leontius of Byzantium.
  
  
  In 1945 CE, a cache of ancient manuscripts was discovered at Nag Hammadi,
  Egypt. The _Gospel of Philip_
  
  
  available to us today was found in this cache, physically attached to and
  literally part of the last page of the _Gospel of Thomas_
  
  
  . A case has been made that the