be rendered “bed,” but also “couch” or “dining couch,” as a meal setting is implied by Salome’s response in 61b.3 Notably, the apocalyptic implications of being taken away to judgment found in Luke 17:34 are absent here. Gos. Thom. 61a is rather a wisdom saying about the random nature of death which has secondarily been given a Gnostic interpretation in this context (Patterson: 47). Here, issues of “life” and “death” are to be decided on the basis of whether one is “undivided” and “filled with