(12) For he stood forty Days in the Temptation in the Wilderness, where there was no Bread nor Drink, then came the Tempter, and would have brought him from Obedience, and said, He should out of the Stones make Bread; which was nothing else, but that he should leave the heavenly Bread, (which Man receives in Faith and in strong Confidence in God,) and put his Imagination into the Spirit of this World, and live therein.

(26) And he brought near to him, and he did eat, and he brought him wine and he drank.

(1) It came to pass then, when that light-power had come down over Jesus, that it gradually surrounded him entirely. Then Jesus ascended or soared into the height, shining most exceedingly in an immeasurable light. And the disciples gazed after him and none of them spake, until he had reached unto heaven; but they all kept in deep silence. This then came to pass on the fifteenth day of the moon, on the day on which it is full in the month Tybi.

(3) And the disciples had not seen Jesus because of the great light in which he was, or which was about him; for their eyes were darkened because of the great light in which he was. But they saw only the light, which shot forth many light-rays. And the light-rays were not like one another, but the light was of divers kind, and it was of divers type, from below upwards, one [ray] more excellent than the other, . . ., in one great immeasurable glory of light; it stretched from under the earth right up to heaven.--And when the disciples saw that light, they fell into great fear and great agitation.

(1) 'As one might lead a person with his eyes covered away from the Gandhâras , and leave him then in a place where there are no human beings; and as that person would turn towards the east, or the north, or the west, and shout, "I have been brought here with my eyes covered, I have been left here with my eyes covered,"

(91) And further also we intimate to you, that these forty Days are the forty Days of Adam's being in Paradise before his Sleep, before the Woman was made out of him, where he stood in the paradisical Temptation, where he was still pure and heavenly. And so this Christ must also stand forty Days in the paradisical Source [or Condition,] in the Temptation, [to try] whether the Body would continue paradisical before he was glorified; and therefore he did eat and drink with his Disciples in a paradisical Manner (as Adam should have done) into the Mouth, and not into the Body; for the Consuming consisted in the Virtue [or Power.]