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Historical Library · Other Early Christian Apocrypha
Jesus and Judas

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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 5:3

Bodies and Souls

Jesus and Judas · Gospel of Judas 5

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3Jesus said, “The souls of every human generation will die. However, when these people have completed their time in the kingdom and the spirit leaves them, their bodies will die, but their souls will live and will be taken up.”

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