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I love the Gospel of Thomas.

It's interesting to say the least, and I believe an important independent account that was set aside without good reason.

Keep in mind- this may well be the account of Judas- one of Jesus' own twin brothers.  Didymos Judas
Thomas...  It literally means Judas, the twin. 

Did Jesus have brothers?  Yes.  And sisters too. (as recorded in both Matthew and Mark)

 “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?  “And His sisters, are they not all with us?

So one of his brothers-- Judas, -was a twin.  That means that there was a Judas Thomas (twin) and possibly a Joseph Jr Thomas (twin) or a James Thomas or a Simon Thomas.... do you see? 

It's not that Jesus was a twin.  It was that he had brothers who were twins.  OR- just as possible Judas had a twin sister, who goes unnamed in those gospel accounts.  Twin doesn't have to mean "identical twin" and it could mean fraternal twins (which don't look alike and can be opposite sex).  In fact, one male and one female that make up a set of twins is the most common scenario.

Something to ponder.  But this Gospel of -the twin'  is the gospel of Judas.  We have another book attributed to this same brother of Jesus named Judas, but we call his book the book of Jude.