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The Secret Book of John
Samuel Zinner, edited by Mark M. Mattison; Other Gospels · Translated text
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Chapter 21 — Codex III
1. [I, however, have spoken] these things to you, so that you may write [them] down [and distribute them in secret] to your companion spirits, [because this] is the mystery [of the] unmoving [race]. This Mother had come [another time in front of me]. [Every]thing she performed in the world, she was [rectifying] the defect.
2. I will [now instruct ‹you›] further concerning what is to come, because surely [I have offered you these things] to write them down and to preserve them [securely]. He then said to me: “[Cursed] be all who will trade these sayings ⟦page 40⟧ for a gift, either of silver or [gold], either for drink or for food, or for garments or for any other thing like these.”
3. He entrusted this mystery to him, and he immediately vanished from him. [He stood] in front of his companion disciples, and began to speak with them [concerning the] things the savior had spoken to him. The Secret Writing According to John