parable · parable in the Gospel of Thomas: “The kingdom […] is like a certain man who wanted to kill a powerful man. In his own house he drew his sword and stuck it into the wall to find out whether his hand could carry through. Then he slew the powerful man.”
A man tests his strength by driving a sword through a wall before going out to kill. Like the empty jar, it survives only in the Gospel of Thomas and stands outside the canon.