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below upwards, one [ray] more excellent than the other, [. . .] , in one great
immeasurable glory of light; it stretched from under the earth right up to heaven. And

when the disciples saw that light, they fell into great fear and great agitation.

CHAPTER 3
1. It came to pass then, when that light-power had come down over Jesus, that it gradually
surrounded him entirely. Then Jesus ascended or soared into the height, shining most
exceedingly in an immeasurable light. And the disciples gazed after him and none of
them spake, until he had reached unto heaven; but they all kept in deep silence. This

then came to pass on the fifteenth day of the moon, on the day on which it is full in the
th
month Tybi [January 24 – of the Gregorian Calendar].
2. It came to pass then, when Jesus had reached the heaven, after three hours, that all the
powers of the heaven fell into agitation, and all were set in motion one against the
other, they and all their æons and all their regions and all their orders, and the whole
earth was agitated and all they who dwell thereon. And all men who are in the world fell

into agitation, and also the disciples, and all thought: Peradventure the world will be
rolled up.
3. And all the powers in the heavens ceased not from their agitation, they and the whole
world, and all were moved one against the other, from the third hour of the fifteenth

day of the moon of Tybi until the ninth hour of the morrow. And all the angels and their
archangels and all the powers of the height, all sang praises to the interiors of the
interiors, so that the whole world heard their voices, without their ceasing till the ninth
hour of the morrow.

CHAPTER 4
1. But the disciples sat together in fear and were in exceedingly great agitation and were

afraid because of the great earthquake which took place, and they wept together,
saying: “What will then be? Peradventure the Saviour will destroy all regions?” Thus
saying, they wept together.
2. While they then said this and wept together, then, on the ninth hour of the morrow, the
heavens opened, and they saw Jesus descend, shining most exceedingly, and there was
no measure for his light in which he was. For he shone more [radiantly] than at the hour

when he had ascended to the heavens, so that men in the world cannot describe the
light which was on him; and it shot forth light-rays in great abundance, and there was no
measure for its rays, and its light was not alike together, but it was of divers kind and of
divers type, some [rays] being more excellent than others [. . .]; and the whole light

consisted together.