The Gospel of Judas in pictures

Maps and diagrams that set this strange, damaged gospel in context — where it sits among the gospels, when it was lost and found, the Gnostic world it came from, and the cosmos it reveals. Scroll, then open any — or see them all.

The Gospels’ Family Tree

Where the Gospel of Judas sits among the many tellings

A Timeline of the Gospels

From the crucifixion to the rediscovery of Judas

The Roots of Gnostic Thought

Where the strands lived — and where the thinking took root

The Gnostic World

Where the ideas lived, and where the buried books came back

Conflict & Heresy

Why the church ruled it out — the questions as a spectrum, and who did the ruling

The Gnostic Cosmos

The map of creation the gospel reveals

A lost apocryphal gospel, preserved in a single damaged Coptic manuscript (Codex Tchacos), reconstructed and translated plainly.

Denounced. Hidden. Buried. For nearly two thousand years the Gospel of Judas was lost — until a battered Coptic codex surfaced from the Egyptian desert and rocked the scholarly world. Now, with frontier AI models, finally rendered in plain modern English, with all the wonder, horror, and gaps of the original. Free to read here, with the original notes preserved, or get it on Kindle.

📖 5 parts Plain modern English Free to read

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Foreword Editorial Notes Introduction Glossary Timeline of the Gospels How a Machine Translates

The text — 5 parts

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Prologue

The Secret Teaching

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Chapter 1

The Laughing Jesus

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Chapter 2

Visions of Corruption

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Chapter 3

The Cosmic Revelation

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Chapter 4

Judas’s Destiny

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