Yehuda’s vision and the betrayal
Marvin Meyer (Nag Hammadi Scriptures composite) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1Yehuda said to Yeshua, So what will those generations do?
2Yeshua said, Truly I say to you, the stars over all of them complete their course. When Saklas completes the period of time prescribed for him, their first star will appear with the generations, and they will finish what has been spoken. They will commit fornication in my name and slay their children, and they will be evil and worship me, and others will mortify the flesh by hiding from creation, and others rise up among the saints. They will be called by that name, and they will mingle with the stars.
3Yehuda said, Master, can it be that my seed has the power to rule the rulers?
4Yeshua answered and said to him, Come, that I may speak with you about the things that no person has ever seen. For there is a great and boundless aeon whose extent no generation of angels has seen, in which there is a great invisible Spirit which no eye of an angel has ever seen, no thought of the heart has ever comprehended, and it was never called by any name.
5Yeshua said, Yehuda, your star has led you astray. He continued, No person of mortal birth is worthy to enter the house you have seen, for that place is reserved for the holy. Neither the sun nor the moon will rule there, nor the day; but the holy will abide there always, in the eternal realm with the holy angels.
6Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star.
7Yehuda lifted up his eyes and saw the luminous cloud, and he entered it. Those standing on the ground heard a voice coming from the cloud, saying, Great generation, exalted and splendid, no eye of flesh shall see you.
8Their high priests murmured because Yeshua had gone into the guest room for his prayer. But some scribes were watching to arrest him during the prayer, for they were afraid of the people, since he was held by all to be a prophet.
9They approached Yehuda and said to him, What are you doing here? You are Yeshua's disciple. He answered them as they wished. And Yehuda received some money and handed him over to them.