Amended. You are referring to the Gospel of Thomas.

These papyrus documents date from 250 BC to 68 AD. Skeptics of Christianity often note that none of these documents mention Jesus. So, how are these quotes exist? While it’s true that the scrolls—which, in reality, mostly concern Jewish religious customs—don’t mention Jesus explicitly, they nevertheless provide essential context that corroborates accounts in the gospels. For example, in Matthew 11:3, John the Baptist’s emissaries visit Jesus to ask him if he’s in fact the messiah. He gives them an enigmatic answer that references Isaiah 35 from the Old Testament, but he adds the words “the dead are raised,” which don’t appear in the canonical Torah. So what’s the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.

Incredibly, a manuscript among the Scrolls includes a different version of Isaiah 61 with the phrase “the dead are raised.” Jesus, John, and his followers would have been familiar with this earlier version of Isaiah, and thus Jesus’s answer isn’t enigmatic at all: John and his followers would have known immediately that Jesus was proclaiming himself the Messiah, the “one who was to come.” This is one clear connection between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible.