The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

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92 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS

so the world may know that you sent me
and loved them just as you loved me.
"Father, wherever I am I want the ones you gave me
also to be with me and see my glory,
which you gave me since you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
"Just father, the world did not know who you were,
but I knew you
and these ones knew that you had sent me.
I made your name known to them
and I shall make it known
so the love with which you loved me
may be in them and I in them."

(Chapter 18)

BETRAYAL AND CAPTURE OF YESHUA


After saying these words, Yeshua went out with his students across the ravine^54
where there was a garden, which he and his students entered.
Now, Yehuda, who betrayed him, also knew the place, since Yeshua often
met there with his students. Then Yehuda got a band of soldiers and serving
men of the high priests and Pharisees, and went there with lamps and torches
and weapons.
Yeshua, who knew everything that was to happen to him, went out and said
to them,
"Who are you looking for?"
They answered him, "Yeshua the Nazarene."
He said to them,
"I am he."
And they stepped backward and fell to the ground.
So again he answered them,
"I told you that I am he.
If you are looking for me, let these men go."



  1. The King James Version gives "brook Cedron." The valley lies east of Jerusalem, on the way
    to the Mountain of Olives.

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