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Chapter 3  
     
1.
 Then I asked Jesus, saying, Rabbi, how shall we be able to prophesy to those who request us to prophesy to them?
 
2.
 For there are many who ask us, and look to us to hear an oracle from us.
 
3.
 And Jesus answered and said, Do you not know that the head of prophecy was cut off with John?
 
4.
 But I said, Lord, can it be possible to remove the head of prophecy?
 
5.
 Then Jesus said to me, When you come to know what head means, and that prophecy issues from the head, then understand the meaning of its head was removed.
 
6.
 At first I spoke to you in parables, and you did not understand; now I speak to you openly, and you still do not perceive.
 
7.
 Yet, it was you who served me as a parable in parables, and as that which is open in the words that are open.
 
8.
 Hasten to be saved without being urged!
 
9.
 Instead, be eager of your own accord, and, if possible, arrive even before me; for thus the Father will love you.
 
10.
 Come to hate hypocrisy and the evil thought; for it is the thought that gives birth to hypocrisy; but hypocrisy is far from truth.
 
11.
 Do not allow the kingdom of heaven to wither; for it is like a palm shoot whose fruit has dropped down around it.
 
12.
 They, the fallen fruit put forth leaves, and after they had sprouted, they caused their womb to dry up.
 
13.
 So it is also with the fruit which had grown from this single root; when it had been picked, fruit was borne by many ?.
 
14.
 It the root was certainly good, and if it were possible for you to produce the new plants now, you would find it.
 
15.
 Since I have already been glorified in this fashion, why do you hold me back in my eagerness to go?
 
16.
 For after the labor, you have compelled me to stay with you another eighteen days for the sake of the parables.
 
17.
 And when he had worked, he was saved, because he had prepared it for food, and again he left some to sow.
 
18.
 So also can you yourselves receive the kingdom of heaven; unless you receive this through knowledge, you will not be able to find it.
 
19.
 Therefore, I say to you, be sober; do not be deceived!
 
20.
 And many times have I said to you all together, and also to you alone, James, have I said, Be saved!
 
21.
 And I have commanded you to follow me, and I have taught you what to say before the archons.
 
22.
 Observe that I have descended and have spoken and undergone tribulation, and carried off my crown after saving you.
 
23.
 For I came down to dwell with you, so that you in turn might dwell with me.
 
24.
 And, finding your houses unsealed, I have made my abode in the houses that could receive me at the time of my descent.
 
25.
 Therefore, trust in me, my brethren; understand what the great light is.
 
26.
 The Father has no need of me, - for a father does not need a son, but it is the son who needs the father - though I shall go later to him.
 
27.
 For the Father of the Son has no need of you.
 
28.
 Hearken to the word, understand knowledge, love life, and no one will persecute you, nor will anyone oppress you, other than you yourselves.
 

 
 
 

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