Endless Elders

The first Gospel of the INFANCY of JESUS CHRIST. [Mr. Henry Sike, Professor of Oriental Languages at Cambridge, first translated and published this Gospel in 1697. It was received by the Gnostics, a sect of Christians in the second century, and several of its relations were credited in the following ages by other Christians, viz., Eusebius, Athanasius, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, &c. Sozomen says, he was told by many, and he credits the relations, of the idols in Egypt falling down on Joseph, and Mary's flight thither with Christ; and of Christ making a well to wash his clothes in a sycamore tree, from whence balsam afterwards proceeded. These stories are from this Gospel. Chemnitlus out of Stipulensis, who had it from Peter Martyr, Bishop of Alexandria, in the third century, says, that the place in Egypt where Christ was banished is now called Matarea, about ten miles beyond Cairo; that the inhabitants constantly burn a lamp in remembrance of it; and that there is a garden of tr...

The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife Transcription  recto (along the fibers →) 1 ⲛⲁ]ⲉⲓ ⲁⲛ ⲧⲁⲙⲁⲁⲩ ⲁⲥϯ ⲛⲁⲉⲓ ⲡ[ⲛϩ 2 ] ⲡⲉϫⲉ ⲙⲁⲑⲏⲧⲏⲥ ⲓ ϫⲉ [ 3 ] . ⲁⲣⲛⲁ ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡϣⲁ ⲙⲟⲥ ⲁ[ⲛ (?) 4 ] . . . [vac. .] / ⲡⲉϫⲉ ⲓ ⲛⲁⲩ ⲧⲁϩⲓⲙⲉ ⲙⲛ¡̄[ 5 ] . . . ⲥⲛⲁϣⲣ̄ⲙⲁⲑⲏⲧⲏⲥ ⲛⲁⲉⲓ ⲁⲩⲱ [ 6 ]ⲓ¡ ⲙⲁⲣⲉⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲉⲑⲟⲟⲩ ϣⲁϥⲉ ⲛⲉ[ 7 ] ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ϯϣⲟⲟⲡ ⲛⲙⲙⲁⲥ ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡ¡[ 8 ] . ⲟⲩϩⲓⲕⲱⲛ¡ . . [ verso (against the fibers ↓) 1 ]ⲧⲁⲙⲁⲁⲩ¡[ 2 ]ⲛ̄ⲙϣⲙ¡ⲛ¡ⲧ¡[ 3 ]ⲁ¡ . ⲉ¡ . . .[ 4 ]ⲉⲃⲱⲗ ⲉ¡ⲧ¡ⲛ¡[ 5 ]ⲟ¡ⲡ¡ . . . . [ 6 ] . [.] . . ⲙⲙ¡[ Translation 1 ] “not [to] me. My mother gave to me li[fe…” 2 ] .” The disciples said to Jesus, “.[ 3 ] deny. Mary is (not?) worthy of it [ 4 ]…” Jesus said to them, “My wife . .[ 5 ]… she is able to be my disciple . . [ 6 ] . Let wicked people swell up … [ 7] . As for me, I am with her1 in order to . [ 8 ] . an image … [ 1 ] my moth[er 2 ] thr[ee 3 ] … [ 4 ] forth …[ 5-6 ] (untranslatable) [  1 Or: “I exist with it/her”; “I dwell with it/her.” https://gospelofjesusswife.hds.harvard.ed...

The Gospel of Thomas  Fragments from Oxyrhynchus Prologue and Saying 1  (pOxy 654.1-5) These are the [hidden] sayings [that] the living Jesus [sp]oke a[nd Judas who] is also Thomas [recorded.] And he said, "[Whoever finds the interpretat]ion of the[se] sayings will not taste [death]." Coptic version of same saying as found in the Nag Hammadi manuscript: These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.  And he said, "Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not experience death." Saying 2  (pOxy. 654.5-9) [Jesus said,] "Let the one seek[ing] not stop [seeking until] he finds. And when he find[s he will marvel, and mar]veling he will reign, an[d reigning] he will [rest.]” Coptic version: Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All." Say...

The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene (The Gospel of Mary) Chapter 4 (Pages 1 to 6 of the manuscript, containing chapters 1 - 3, are lost.  The extant text starts on page 7...) . . . Will matter then be destroyed or not? 22) The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots. 23) For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone. 24) He who has ears to hear, let him hear. 25) Peter said to him, Since you have explained everything to us, tell us this also: What is the sin of the world? 26) The Savior said There is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do the things that are like the nature of adultery, which is called sin. 27) That is why the Good came into your midst, to the essence of every nature in order to restore it to its root. 28) Then He continued and said, That is why you become sick and die, for you are deprived of the one who can h...