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

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88 EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS


"Now my soul is shaken
and what shall I say?
Father, save me from this hour?
But I came for this hour.
Father, glorify your name."
A voice came out of the sky,
"I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
Then the crowd standing there heard it. They said,
"It has thundered."
Others said,
"An angel has spoken to him."
Yeshua answered and said,
"Not because of me has this voice come
but because of you.
Now is the judgment of the world,
now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
And if I am raised above the earth
I will draw everyone to me."
This he said, signifying what kind of death he was to die.
The crowd answered him, "We heard from the law that the messiah re-
mains forever. How can you say the earthly son must be raised? Who is this
earthly son?"
Yeshua said to them,
"For a little time longer the light is with you.
Walk while you still have the light
so that the darkness may not overtake you.
And the one walking in the darkness
does not know where he is going.
While you have light, believe in the light
so you may be the children of light."

OF THE UNBELIEVERS


Yeshua said this and went away and went into hiding from them. Though he
had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they did not believe in
him so that the word spoken by Isaiah will be fulfilled:
"Lord, who has believed in our message?

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