Pistis SophiaGnostic / Alternative Early ChristianAlternative Early ChristianCoptic, likely drawing on Greek source traditionsSharePistis Sophia 4G. R. S. Mead 1921 - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableG. R. S. Mead 1921LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Pistis Sophia 1Pistis Sophia 2Pistis Sophia 3Pistis Sophia 4Pistis Sophia 5Pistis Sophia 6Pistis Sophia 7Pistis Sophia 8Pistis Sophia 9Pistis Sophia 10Pistis Sophia 11Pistis Sophia 12Pistis Sophia 13Pistis Sophia 14Pistis Sophia 15Pistis Sophia 16Pistis Sophia 17Pistis Sophia 18Pistis Sophia 19Pistis Sophia 20Pistis Sophia 21Pistis Sophia 22Pistis Sophia 23Pistis Sophia 24Pistis Sophia 25Pistis Sophia 26Pistis Sophia 27Pistis Sophia 28Pistis Sophia 29Pistis Sophia 30Pistis Sophia 31Pistis Sophia 32Pistis Sophia 33Pistis Sophia 34Pistis Sophia 35Pistis Sophia 36Pistis Sophia 37Pistis Sophia 38Pistis Sophia 39Pistis Sophia 40Pistis Sophia 41Pistis Sophia 42Pistis Sophia 43Pistis Sophia 44Pistis Sophia 45Pistis Sophia 46Pistis Sophia 47Pistis Sophia 48Pistis Sophia 49Pistis Sophia 50Pistis Sophia 51Pistis Sophia 52Pistis Sophia 53Pistis Sophia 54Pistis Sophia 55Pistis Sophia 56Pistis Sophia 57Pistis Sophia 58Pistis Sophia 59Pistis Sophia 60Pistis Sophia 61Pistis Sophia 62Pistis Sophia 63Pistis Sophia 64Pistis Sophia 65Pistis Sophia 66Pistis Sophia 67Pistis Sophia 68Pistis Sophia 69Pistis Sophia 70Pistis Sophia 71Pistis Sophia 72Pistis Sophia 73Pistis Sophia 74Pistis Sophia 75Pistis Sophia 76Pistis Sophia 77Pistis Sophia 78Pistis Sophia 79Pistis Sophia 80Pistis Sophia 81Pistis Sophia 82Pistis Sophia 83Pistis Sophia 84Pistis Sophia 85Pistis Sophia 86Pistis Sophia 87Pistis Sophia 88Pistis Sophia 89Pistis Sophia 90Pistis Sophia 91Pistis Sophia 92Pistis Sophia 93Pistis Sophia 94Pistis Sophia 95Pistis Sophia 96Pistis Sophia 97Pistis Sophia 98Pistis Sophia 99Pistis Sophia 100Pistis Sophia 101Pistis Sophia 102Pistis Sophia 103Pistis Sophia 104Pistis Sophia 105Pistis Sophia 106Pistis Sophia 107Pistis Sophia 108Pistis Sophia 109Pistis Sophia 110Pistis Sophia 111Pistis Sophia 112Pistis Sophia 113Pistis Sophia 114Pistis Sophia 115Pistis Sophia 116Pistis Sophia 117Pistis Sophia 118Pistis Sophia 119Pistis Sophia 120Pistis Sophia 121Pistis Sophia 122Pistis Sophia 123Pistis Sophia 124Pistis Sophia 125Pistis Sophia 126Pistis Sophia 127Pistis Sophia 128Pistis Sophia 129Pistis Sophia 130Pistis Sophia 131Pistis Sophia 132Pistis Sophia 133Pistis Sophia 134Pistis Sophia 135Pistis Sophia 136Pistis Sophia 137Pistis Sophia 138Pistis Sophia 139Pistis Sophia 140Pistis Sophia 141Pistis Sophia 142Pistis Sophia 143Pistis Sophia 145Pistis Sophia 146Pistis Sophia 147Pistis Sophia 148Pistis Sophia 149›Pistis Sophia: Chapter 4Pistis Sophia 4ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1But the disciples sat together in fear and were in exceedingly great agitation and were afraid because of the great earthquake which took place, and they wept together, saying: "What will then be? Peradventure the Saviour will destroy all regions?" Thus saying, they wept together. 2While they then said this and wept together, then, on the ninth hour of the morrow, the heavens opened, and they saw Jesus descend, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for his light in which he was. For he shone more [radiantly] than at the hour when he had ascended to the heavens, so that men in the world cannot describe the light which was on him; and it shot forth light-rays in great abundance, and there was no measure for its rays, and its light was not alike together, but it was of divers kind and of divers type, some [rays] being more excellent than others...; and the whole light consisted together. It was of threefold kind, and the one [kind] was more excellent than the other.... The second, that in the midst, was more excellent than the first which was below, and the third, which was above them all, was more excellent than the two which were below. And the first glory, which was placed below them all, was like to the light which had come over Jesus before he had ascended into the heavens, and was like only itself in its light. And the three light-modes were of divers light-kinds, and they were of divers type, one being more excellent than the other.... ‹Previous chapterPistis Sophia 3Next chapterPistis Sophia 5›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States