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Jesus addresses the seated disciples with sober expression and open hands.
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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 4:6

You Are the Twelve

The Disciples' Vision · Gospel of Judas 4

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6Jesus said to them, "Why are you troubled? Truly I say to you, all the priests standing before that altar invoke my name. And [again], I say to you, my name has been written on this [house] of the generations of the stars by the human generations. [And they] have shamefully planted fruitless trees in my name." Jesus said to them, "You are the ones receiving the offerings on the altar you saw. That is the God you serve, and you are the twelve people you saw. The animals you saw being brought in for sacrifice are the crowd you lead astray before that altar. [Your minister] will stand up and use my name in that way, and [the] generations of the pious will be loyal to him. After him, another person will present [those who sleep around], another those who murder children, another those who sleep with men, and those who fast, and the rest of impurity, crime, and error. And those who say, ‘We are equal to the angels’—they are the stars that finish everything. It has been said to the human generations, ‘Look, God has accepted your sacrifice from the hands of priests,’ that is, the minister of error. But the Lord who commands is the Lord over everything. On the last day, they will be found guilty."

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