1 The teaching [of the] savior, and [the revelation] of the mysteries, [and the] sayings concealed in silence, [even these sayings that] he taught John, [his] disciple. (APJ) 2 It, [however], came to pass [one day], when John, [the brother] of James — they being the sons of Zebedee — had gone up to the temple, that a Pharisee named Arimanios [came to] him [and] said to him: “[Where] is your teacher, [whom] you were following?” (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 1:1–2
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