“... In keeping with this, there is significant quotation of canonical language. In a baptismal context as in Matthew, Jesus says, “[This is how] we are to fulfil all righteousness.”14 There is reference by Jesus to “my Father in heaven,”15 to “the outer darkness,”16 and the instruction: “Go inside into your chamber and close the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.”17 On the cross, Jesus in the Gospel of Philip utters a slight variation on the cry of dereliction: “My God, my God, why o Lord have you forsaken me?”18 As Watson has noted, this is an unusually “straight” repetition of a canonical saying: “The Gospel of Philip applies the cry of derelic- tion solely to the earthly event, not to any heavenly analogy.”19 As is evident here, Matthew is a clear influence. There is also Johannine language, however: “If you know the truth, the truth will set you free.”20 To that extent there is what one might call absorption of the ...”