Unknown to most laymen, they throw light on early non-canonical Gospel traditions.

Probably the fragment is from a non-canonical Gospel.

It also appears in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas.

However, given that the non-canonical gospels generally have no time sequence, this table is not a Gospel harmony.

The actual question is directly expressed only in the non-canonical Gospel of Peter:

The non-canonical Gospel of Peter adds far more information stating that the tomb was closed with seven wax seals.

It was the first of the non-canonical gospels to be rediscovered, preserved in the dry sands of Egypt.

The canonical gospels, overall, are considered to have more historically authentic content than the various non-canonical gospels.

This classification commingles them with certain non-canonical gospels and New Testament Apocrypha.

The non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an independent witness to many of the Jesus' parables and aphorisms.

John the Baptist is mentioned in all four canonical Gospels and the non-canonical Gospel of the Nazarenes.

In the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, a used similar phrase appears, "There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world."

The non-canonical Gospel of Thomas contains up to fifteen parables, eleven of which have parallels in the four canonical Gospels.

A number of parables have parallels in non-canonical gospels, the Didache, and the letters of Apostolic Fathers.

The fragmentary Gospel of Peter was the first non-canonical gospel to have been rediscovered, preserved in the dry sand of Egypt.

The non-canonical Gospel of Judas says Judas had a vision of the disciples stoning and persecuting him.

Pagels argues that the Gospel of John was written as a rebuttal to the viewpoints put forth in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas.

Those parts of the four Gospels that describe these events, as well as the non-canonical Gospel of Peter, are known as the "Passion narratives".

However, it appears in none of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament but only in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas.

Pierson Parker in 1940 suggested that the non-canonical Gospel of the Hebrews was the second source used in the Gospel of Luke.

Bock also wrote The Missing Gospels, which argues for the existence and legitimate primacy of early Christian proto-orthodoxy over non-canonical gospels and beliefs.

The liturgical formula appears again in the non-canonical Gospel of the Hebrews 9 in which Jesus and James the Just partake of the bread and wine.

According to the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas which is a so-called apocryphon, the Apostles found Mary's grave empty, from which the sweet scent of rose was emanating.

King also acknowledged, though, that the text (which she suggested is a fragment from a non-canonical gospel) "provide[s] the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been married."

The Other Gospels : Non-Canonical Gospel Texts (Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press).