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The Gospel of Philip echoes John's description of the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father. Placing this beside anointing extends Jesus' shared life with the Father to believers, who receive his gifts rather than simply observe his unity.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
John 10:38
New Testament
34 Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. 38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
Gospel of Philip 10:29
Nag Hammadi
The chrism surpasses baptism, because from the chrism we were called “Christian,” not on account of baptism, and it was owing to the chrism that “Christ” was named, because the Father anointed the Son, and the Son anointed the apostles, and the apostles anointed us. He who has been anointed possesses all things. He possesses the resurrection, the light, the cross, the holy Spirit. The Father granted him this in the bridal chamber. He obtained it, and the Father came to dwell inside the Son, and the Son inside the Father. This is [the kingdom] of Heaven. The Lord said [it] well: “Some entered into the kingdom of Heaven laughing, and they went out [laughing].”
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Notes and References
“... The minor differences between these passages are due to authorial perspective, while the structure remains the same: ‘the Father in the Son/me’; ‘the Son/I in the Father.’43 John 10:38 emphasizes the unity of the Father and Son (see 14:10–11; 17:21), but it is used in §96b to claim that those who are anointed in the bridal chamber have the same possessions of Jesus, particularly the Holy Spirit. The verbal overlap is admittedly small, but it is significant in that it describes the relationship between the Father and Son using the same structure as John 10:38.44 ...”
Zelyck, Lorne R.
John among the Other Gospels: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Extra-Canonical Gospels
(p. 116) Mohr Siebeck, 2013
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