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The Apostle Paul may have been citing the ''logia'' when he spoke of "the words of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 20:35) recording a saying of Jesus not found in any of the four gospels: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Fragments of ''logia'' were among Grenfell and Hunt's first season's finds at Oxyrhyncus in 1897. A single leaf of a papyrus Codex , written in the first half of the 3rd century, contains a collection of sayings of Jesus (Oxyrhyncus Papyrus 1), each headed "Jesus says". In 1903 a second 3rd century ''logia'' fragment, from a papyrus scroll that had been used for an official register, was discovered (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 654, now British Museum Papyrus 1531 verso). Controversy centered on whether the two fragments formed part of the same work, what authority could be attached to them, and the correct restoration of lacunae in the texts (Bell and Skeat 1935). Oxyrhynchus 654 had a heading which seems to describe the work as a collection of "sayings" addressed to Thomas and some other disciple, and when the Nag Hammadi '' Gospel Of Thomas '' was discovered in 1945, it was identified as a Coptic version of these two ''logia'' fragments. ''Thomas'' contains both alleged quotations from Jesus found in the canonical gospels and many sayings not found elsewhere. Logia is also an type of Devil Fruit in the manga One Piece that relates to elemental powers. EXTERNAL LINK
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