Jesus prank

one of the greatest pranks of this common era, begotten by our savior himself.

in the gospel of thomas, jesus asks his disciples, “who am i?” christ receives three answers:

1.) peter: “you are a righteous messenger”
2.) matthew: “you are a wise philosopher”
3.) thomas: “my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like”

upon these answers, jesus pulls thomas aside and reveals three secret sayings to him. thomas returns to the other disciples, and they eagerly ask what jesus had said. thomas tells them, “if i tell you even one of the things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; and a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up.”

the three secret sayings were never revealed from thomas, and died out with him. what’s the prank? when jesus pulled thomas aside, what he actually said was something along the lines of:

“yo, thomas, i’ve got this brilliant f-cking idea. i’m going to whisper in your ear some nonsense, and you just nod. when you get back to the other ‘sciples over there, they’re going to ask you what i said. just tell them i told you three secret sayings and that you can’t ever tell them what they are. it’ll drive them and the future religious world ridonkeykong!”
john 8:12

“when jesus spoke again to the people he said, “i am the light of the world. whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, unless, of course, that person falls for another one of my infallible jesus pranks!”