1 In your hearing I have finished everything for your sake, but I have said everything to you so that you may write them down and distribute them in secret to your companion spirits, because this is the mystery of the unmoving race.” (APJ) 2 The savior also entrusted these sayings to him so that he would write them down and keep them locked away, and he said to him: “Cursed be any who will trade these sayings for a gift, either of food, or of drink, or of garments, or of any other thing like these.” «32» (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 21:1–2
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