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Offering vessels stand on an empty shadowed altar amid fractured shadows.
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Historical Library · Other Early Christian Apocrypha
The Disciples' Vision

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Source and translation notes

Anonymous. The title attributes the narrative to Judas, but the work does not establish Judas Iscariot as its historical author.

Codex Tchacos 3 · Coptic (source-language review pending)

English witness: Mark M. Mattison. Public domain witness.

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English translation witness

Gospel of Judas 4:5

The Troubling Offerings

The Disciples' Vision · Gospel of Judas 4

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5And they said, "[Some] fast [for] two weeks. Others sacrifice their own children; others, their wives, praising and humbling themselves among one another. Others sleep with men; others murder; still others commit many sins and do criminal things. [And] the people standing [before] the altar invoke your [name]! And in all their sacrificing, they fill the [altar] with their offerings." When they said this, [they] fell silent because they were troubled.

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