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The Apocryphon of John is commonly referenced by two other names: The Secret Book of John and The Secret Revelation of John , depending upon how the word "Apocryphon" is translated. There are four surviving Coptic manuscripts of this text: two shorter versions found in the Berlin Codex and Nag Hammadi Codex III; and two longer version, found in Nag Hammadi Codex II and Codex IV. This translation prepared by Dr. Wisse for the Gnostic Coptic Library Project uses all four manuscripts to produce a single text. The Teaching of the Savior and the Revelation of the Mysteries, and of all the things hidden in silence, even the things which he had taught to John, his disciple! And it happened one day, when John, the brother of James - of the sons of Zebedee - had come up to the temple, that a Pharisee named Arimanius approached him and said to him, "Where is your master whom you followed?" And he said to him, "He has gone to the place from which he came." The P...
