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Two abstract ochre forms rise from darker earth-colored gouache beneath a mist cloud.
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Jesus Reveals Everything to 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 6:12

Fashioning Adam and Eve

Jesus Reveals Everything to Judas · Gospel of Judas 6

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12"Then Saklas said to his angels, ‘Let’s create a human being after the likeness and the image.’ And they fashioned Adam and his wife Eve, who in the cloud is called ‘Life,’ because by this name all the generations seek him, and each of them calls her by their names. Now Saklas did not [command …] give birth, except […] among the generations […] which this […] and the [angel] said to him, ‘Your life will last for a limited time, with your children.’"

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