Be Filled

1. The Savior said: “[The Father] has had mercy on you, [so that you have be]come [my dis]ciples.

2. You have written [my words in] books.

3. As [... to] you [...] study, and as [...] you have [not] heard and [as...], they have not understood.

4. So do you not desire to be filled? And your mind is intoxicated.

5. So do you not desire to be sober? So be ashamed!

6. From now on, when you wake or sleep, remember that you have seen the Son of Man, and that you have spoken with him, and have heard him.

7. Woe to those who have seen the Son [of] Man.

8. Blessed will they be who have not seen the Man, and they who have not associated with him, and they who have not spoken with him, and they who have heard nothing from him. To you belongs life.

9. So be aware that he healed you when you were sick, so that you could rule.

10. Woe to those who have obtained rest from their sickness, because they will fall back into sickness.

11. Blessed are they who have not been sick, and who have obtained rest before falling sick. To you belongs the kingdom of God.

12. So I say to you, ‘Become full and do not allow any space inside you to be empty, because he who is coming (to enter into you) will be able to mock you.’”

13. Peter then responded: “Behold, thrice have you commanded us, ‘Become [full’; but] we are (already) full.”

14. The [Savior replied] and said: [“This is the reason I have said] to you, [‘Become full,’] so that [you] would not [be diminished].

15. [Those who are diminished] will not, however, [be saved], because it is good to be full, and bad to be diminished.

16. Just as it is, then, good that [you] diminish and bad that you be full, so he who is full will diminish and he who is diminished will not become full.

17. Just as (it is good that) he who is diminished will become full, so he who is full will also in turn be fulfilled.

18. You must therefore diminish while you can (still) fill yourselves, and fill yourselves while you can (still) diminish yourselves, so that you can all the more [fill] yourselves.

19. So become full of the Spirit, but diminished of mind, because mind is of the soul, and it is soul.”