Talking head Jesus

Mark Goodacre's NT Blog has a post - Gospel of Thomas Movie - about a film showing an actor as Jesus reading the sayings from the Gospel of Thomas. There are various versions of the film you can choose at the website - a gentle Jesus or a passionate one, etc. Watching the sayings read made me especially aware of their lack of context - I guess I like my sayings served best via a storyline :) Here's the 'gentle western' styled Jesus ...