1God is a dyer.

2Like the good dyes – they're called true – die with what's been dyed in them, so it is with those who were dyed by God.

3Because his dyes are immortal, they become immortal by means of his colors.

4But God baptizes in water.

5It's impossible for anyone to see anything that really exists unless they become like them.

6It's not like the person in the world who sees the sun without becoming a sun, and who sees heaven and earth and everything else without becoming them.

7That's the way it is.

8But you've seen something of that place, and have become them.

9You saw the Spirit, you became spirit; you saw Christ, you became Christ; you saw [the Father, you] will become father.

10Because of this, [here] you see everything and don't [see yourself], but you see yourself [there], because you'll [become] what you see.

11Faith receives; love gives. [No one will be able to] [receive] without faith, and no one will be able to give without love.

12So we believe in order that we may receive, but we give in order that we may love, since anyone who doesn't give with love doesn't get anything out of it.

13Whoever hasn't received the Lord is still a Hebrew.

14The apostles before us called (him) "Jesus the Nazarene Messiah," that is, "Jesus the Nazarene Christ." The last name is "Christ," the first is "Jesus," the middle one is "the Nazarene." "Messiah" has two meanings: both "Christ" and "the measured." "Jesus" in Hebrew is "the redemption." "Nazara" is "the truth." So "the Nazarene" is "the truth." "Christ" is the one who was measured.

15"The Nazarene" and "Jesus" are the ones who were measured.

16A pearl doesn't become less valuable if it's cast down into the mud, nor will it become more valuable if it's anointed with balsam; but it's valuable to its owner all the time.

17That's what it's like with God's children: no matter where they are, they're still valuable to their Father.

18If you say, "I'm a Jew," no one will be moved.

19If you say, "I'm a Roman," no one will be disturbed.

20If you say, "I'm a Greek," "a Barbarian," "a slave," ["a free person,"] no one will be troubled. [If] you [say,] "I'm a Christian," the […] will tremble.

21If only [… of] this kind, this one [who …] won't be able to endure [hearing] his name.

22God is a human-eater.

23Because of this, the human is [sacrificed] to him.

24Before the human was sacrificed, animals were sacrificed, because those to whom they were sacrificed weren't gods.

25Vessels of glass and pottery come into being by means of fire.

26But if glass vessels break they're remade, because they came into being by means of a breath, but if pottery vessels break they're destroyed, because they came into being without breath.

27A donkey turning a millstone traveled a hundred miles.

28When it was released, it still found itself in the same place.

29Many people travel, but don't get anywhere.

30When evening came, they saw neither city nor village, nor anything created or natural, nor power nor angel.

31The wretches worked in vain.

32The Eucharist is Jesus, because in Syriac he's called "Pharisatha," that is, "the one who's spread out," because Jesus came to crucify the world.

33The Lord went into Levi's place of dyeing.

34He took seventy-two colors and threw them into the vat.

35He brought all of them out white and said, "That's the way the Son of Humanity has come [as] a dyer."

36The Wisdom who is called "the barren" is the Mother [of the angels] and [the] companion of the [… Mary] Magdalene [… loved her] more than the disciples [… he] kissed her on her [… many] times.

37The rest of […] […] they said to him, "Why do you love her more than all of us?" The Savior said to them in reply, "Why don't I love you like her?

38When a person who's blind and one who sees are both in the dark, they're no different from one another.

39When the light comes, the one who sees will see the light, and the one who's blind will remain in the dark."

40The Lord said, "Blessed is the one who exists before existing, because they who exist did exist, and will exist."

41The superiority of humanity isn't revealed, but exists in what's hidden.

42So it (humanity) masters animals that are stronger, that are greater in terms of that which is revealed and that which is hidden.

43This allows them to survive; but if humanity separates from them (the animals), they kill, bite, and eat each other, because they didn't find food.

44But now they've found food because humanity has worked the earth.

45If someone goes down into the water and comes up without having received anything, and says, "I'm a Christian," they've borrowed the name at interest.

46But if they receive the Holy Spirit, they have the gift of the name.

47Whoever has received a gift doesn't have it taken away, but whoever has borrowed it at interest has to give it back.

48That's what it's like when someone comes into being in a mystery.