Did the Nag Hammadi collection contain any other gospels?
Yes, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts contained nearly 50 different documents that included a number of “secret” gospels. These included titles such as, The Gospel of Philip, The Gospel of Truth, the Gospel of Thomas, and the Gospel of Mary, as well as a number of other texts purporting to give special truth and insights into God, spiritual realities, and secret knowledge. Although each of these documents was called a “gospel,” they are very different from the four canonical gospels. They do not contain accounts of Jesus’ earthly ministry, his passion, and his resurrection. They tend to be discourses on secret knowledge. Aren’t all of these additional gospels what Dan Brown was alluding to in The Da Vinci Code? Probably so. His plot about Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene is derived from a passage in The Gospel of Philip that says, “And the companion of the […] Mary Magdalene, […] her more than the disciples […] kiss her on her […]. The rest of […]. They said to him, ‘Why do you love her more t
