22 [38] And they [said, "We saw] a great [house, with a great] altar [in it, and] twelve people – we'd say they were priests – and a name. And a crowd of people was waiting at the altar [until] the priests [finished receiving] the offerings. We kept waiting too." (GJU) 23 [Jesus said], "What were they like?" (GJU) 24 And they said, "[Some] fast [for] two weeks. Others sacrifice their own children; others their wives, praising and humbling themselves among each other. Others sleep with men; others murder; yet others commit many sins and do criminal things. [And] the people standing [before] the altar invoke your [name]! [39] And in all their sacrificing, they fill the [altar] with their offerings." When they said this, [they] fell silent because they were troubled. (GJU)
Gospel of Judas 1:22–24
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