Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
These therefore having said them Jesus, added Maria, she prostrated at
the feet of Jesus, she kissed them, said she, My Lord, yet I shall seek
from thee, Reveal to us and hide not from us. Answered Jesus, said he to
Maria, Seek after that which ye seek after, [255^b] and I shall reveal
to you in boldness without parable. Answered Maria, said she, My Lord,
then thou didst not bring mystery unto the world because of the poverty
with the riches and because of the weakness with the strength, and
because of the diseased with the bodies which are sound, in one word,
because of all these kinds, that whenever we should go in the places of
the country, and they should not believe us, and they should not hearken
unto our words, and we should do a mystery of this kind in those places,
that they should know truth truly that we are preaching the words of
(the Lord of) the Universe? Answered the Saviour, said he to Maria in
the midst of the disciples, Concerning this mystery of which ye seek
from me, I gave [256^a] it to you at another time, but I shall repeat
also and say unto you the word. Now therefore Maria, not only ye but
every man who will complete the mystery of the raising of the dead, this
is wont to cure the demons with every pain, with every sickness, and
with the blind, and with the lame, with the maimed, with the dumb, with
the deaf, this I gave to you once. He who taketh up a mystery and
completeth it, afterwards therefore whenever he should ask any (every)
thing, poverty and riches, weakness and strength, disease and sound
body, with every healing of the body, and with the raising of the dead,
and to cure the lame with the blind with the deaf with the dumb, with
every sickness with every pain, in one word, he who will complete that
mystery and ask (every) thing which I said, it will [256^b] happen to
him instantly.
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