Gospel of Philip

The text opens on converts, stating a Jew makes a convert but a convert makes no convert. On slaves, it contrasts heirs of the living and the dead. It discusses gentiles, Jews, and Christians, noting that when Jews became Christians they gained a father and mother. It advises sowing in the world to reap in the other realm. Christ came to buy, rescue, and redeem strangers, retrieving what fell to thieves. It treats light and darkness, names as illusory, the unspoken name the father gave the son, truth making names, and rulers who swap names to enslave. Forces resist salvation; before Christ there was no bread. The holy spirit acted secretly. It denies the spirit impregnated Mary, calling her a virgin. The lord speaks of his father, of possessions, and of hidden and open names (Jesus, Christ, messias, christos, Nazarene). It says the lord rose first, then died. It discusses soul in body, flesh and blood, and Jesus saying whoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood has life. Jesus tricked everyone, appearing differently to each, and grew great on the mountain. Passages follow on angels, the lamb, kisses, three Marys (mother, sister, and Mary of Magdala), the holy spirit, Sophia and salt, Echamoth and Echmoth, Cain born of the serpent, God as dyer, and seeing as becoming. Jesus loved Mary of Magdala and kissed her, prompting students' questions; the savior answers with the blind man analogy. Further sections cover baptism, marriage, the bridal chamber, unclean spirits, leaving the world, the middle place, will and sin, hell, fire, truth in images, five sacraments, Eve in Adam, the crucifixion cry, the lord rising with true flesh, rebirth, three buildings in Jerusalem, the garment of light, and Christ repairing the separation of woman and man.

The text states the woman and man become one in the chamber, and Eve and Adam separated because they joined outside it. Adam's soul arises from breath, joins spirit, and speaks words the powers envy, prompting them to fashion the bridal chamber. Jesus appears at the Jordan with the kingdom's fullness, anointed and redeeming. The father of all joins the virgin who came down; Jesus acts through this force. Adam comes from two virgins; Christ from a virgin. Two trees grow in paradise; Adam ate from the animal-bearing tree of knowledge. A man makes children in his image. In the kingdom the free serve slaves. Jesus descends into water to consecrate it; baptism gives life. Philip says Joseph the carpenter made the cross, whose seed was Jesus. The world eats bodies; Jesus carries life-giving food. God's garden and the tree of knowledge brought death. Chrism surpasses baptism; father anoints son, son anoints messengers, messengers anoint us. The lord speaks of entering and leaving laughing; Christ emerged laughing. The world came through error. The cup holds the perfect human; the living water is a body to put on. Like engenders like; Christians descend from another people. Knowledge frees, love builds up. The Samaritan gave wine and oil. Children resemble whom the woman loves. Farming needs faith, hope, love, knowledge. Jesus harms no soul. A householder feeds each creature fittingly. Creating differs from engendering. Undefiled marriage is pure. Abraham circumcised himself. Hidden things live; Jesus uproots evil's root. Ignorance is evil's mother; truth frees. The veil is rent top to bottom; the bridal chamber invites; the perfect light flows.