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CHAPTER 83
1. It came to pass then again, after all this, that Mary came forward, adored the feet of
Jesus and said: "My Lord, be not wroth with me, if I question thee, because we question
concerning everything with precision and certainty.
2. For thou hast said unto us aforetime: 'Seek that ye may find, and knock that it may be

opened unto you. For every one who seeketh shall find, and to every one who knocketh
it shall be opened.'
3. Now, therefore, my Lord, who is it whom I shall seek, or who is it at whom we shall
knock? Or who rather is able to give us the decision upon the words concerning which
we shall question thee? Or who rather knoweth the power of the words concerning

which we shall question? Because thou in the mind hast given us mind of the Light and
hast given us sense and an exceedingly exalted thought; for which cause, therefore, no
one existeth in the world of men nor any one in the height of the æons, who can give
the decision on the words concerning which we question, save thee alone, who
knoweth [sic] the universe, who is perfected in the universe; because we do not
question in the manner in which the men of the world question, but because we

question in the gnosis of the Height which thou hast given unto us, and we question
moreover in the type of the excellent questioning which thou hast taught us, that we
may question therein.

4. Now, therefore, my Lord, be not wroth with me, but reveal unto me the matter
concerning which I shall question thee."
5. It came to pass, when Jesus had heard Mary Magdalene say these words, that he
answered and said unto her: "Question concerning what thou desirest to question, and I
will reveal it unto thee with precision and certainty. Amēn, amēn, I say unto you: Rejoice
in great joy and exult most exceedingly.

6. If ye question concerning all with precision, then shall I exult most exceedingly, because
ye question concerning all with precision and question in the manner in which it
beseemeth to question. Now, therefore, question concerning what thou wouldst
question, and I will reveal it unto thee with joy."

7. It came to pass then, when Mary had heard the Saviour say these words, that she
rejoiced in great joy and exulted most exceedingly and said unto Jesus: "My Lord and
Saviour, of what manner then are the four-and-twenty invisibles and of what type, or
rather of what quality are they, or of what quality is then their light?"