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

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EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 73

To all who received him
he gave power to become the children of god,
to those who believed in his name,
who were born not from blood
or from the will of the flesh
or from the will of a man,
but were born of god.

THE WORD BECAME FLESH


And the word became flesh
and lived among us.^7
And we gazed on his glory,
the glory of the only son born of the father,
who is filled with grace and truth.

YOHANAN TESTIFIES ABOUT YESHUA


Yohanan testified about him and cried out, saying,
"He is the one of whom I said,
'One who will come after me was before me,'
because before me he was.
From his bounty we have all received grace upon grace,
and as the law was given through Moshe,^8
grace and truth have come through Yeshua the Galilean.
No one has ever seen god.
Only the one born of god,^9
who is in the heart of his father,
he has made him known."

7- God's word became human flesh in the person of Jesus.


  1. Moses.
    9- Other texts have "only son" (or "only begotten son").

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