Peter Sees the Crucifixion and the Savior Explains It (81,3-82,3)

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The Revelation of Peter - Part 8 (Jesus speaks to Peter)

 

Peter Sees the Crucifixion and the Savior Explains It (81,3-82,3)

 

(p.495) When he said this, I saw him apparently arrested by them. I said, " What

do I see, Lord? Is it really you they are seizing, and are you holding on to me?

(p.496) And who is the one smiling and laughing above[49] the cross? Is it

someone else whose feet and hands they are hammering? "

 

The Savior said to me, " The one you see smiling and laughing above the cross is

the living Jesus. The one into whose hands and feet they are driving nails is

his fleshly part, the substitute for him. They are putting to shame the one who

came into being in the likeness of the living Jesus. Look at him and look at

me. "

 

When I looked, I said, " Lord, no one sees you. Let's get out of here. "

 

He answered me, " I told you they are blind. Forget about them. Look at how they

do not know what they are saying. For they have put to shame the son of their

own glory instead of the one who serves me. "

 

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (The International Edition)

Edited by Marvin Meyer; Advisory Board: Wolf-Peter Funk, Paul-Hubert Poirier,

James M. Robinson; Introduction by Elaine H. Pagels

The Revelation of Peter, p.495-496

HarperCollins Publishers - New York

ISBN:978-0-06-052378-7

ISBN-10: 0-06-052378-6

 

Notes:

 

[49] Or " beside, " here and below.