How Does It Corroborate the Life of Jesus?
The Gospel of Judas provides little new or additional information about the life of Jesus. It presumes that the canonical Gospel narratives are true and available to those who might also possess this text; it merely seeks to add an additional conversation between Jesus and Judas that supposedly occurs three days prior to the “Last Supper” recorded in the reliable Gospels. It recognizes Jesus as “the son of our God” and a miracle worker who formed a group of disciples. Jesus is seen as the reliable source of information about heaven and other spiritual matters. Like the canonical Gospels, the Gospel of Judas affirms that Judas was approached by the scribes to betray Jesus and that Judas received payment for his information about the location of Jesus. Where (and Why) Does It Differ from the Reliable Accounts? The Gospel of Judas reflects Sethian Gnosticism similar to the Apocryphon of James and John. Jesus reserves secret, hidden and esoteric information for Judas and the text describes
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