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8. The apostles answered with one voice, saying: "O Lord, teach us the way to crucify the
world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and lose our lives."

9. The living Jesus answered: "He who has crucified it (the world) is he who has found my
word and has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me."

CHAPTER 2 A
1. The apostles answered, saying: "Speak to us, O Lord, that we may hear thee. “We have
followed thee with our whole hearts. We have left behind father and mother, we have
left behind vineyards and fields, we have left behind goods and the greatness of rulers

(kings), and we have followed thee, so that thou shouldst teach us the life of thy Father
who has sent thee."
2. The living Jesus answered and said: "The life of my Father is this: that you receive your
soul from the race of understanding (mind), and that it ceases to be earthly and
becomes understanding through that which I say to you in the course of my discourse,
so that you fulfil it and are saved from the archon of this aeon and his persecutions, to

which there is no end.
3. But you, my disciples, hasten to receive my word with certainty so that you know it, in
order that the archon of this aeon may not fight with you - this one who did not find any
commandment of his in me - so that you also, O my apostles, fulfil my word. [continued]