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211is he who has crucified the world, and who has not the world to crucify him.\CHAPTER 21. The apostles answered with one voice, saying: \world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and loose our lives.\2. The living Jesus answered: \has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me.\3. The apostles answered, saying: %u201cSpeak to us, O Lord, that we may hear thee. We have followed thee with our whole hearts. We have left behind father and mother, we have left behind vineyards and fields, we have left behind goods and the greatness of kings, and we have followed thee, so that thou shouldst teach us to know the life of thy father who has sent thee\4. The living Jesus answered and said: \soul from the race of understanding mind, and that it ceases to be earthly and becomes understanding through that which I say to you in the course of my discourse, so that you fulfill it and are saved from the archon of this aeon and his persecutions, to which there is no end. 5. But you, my disciples, hasten to receive my word with certainty so that you know it, in order that the archon of this aeon may not fight %u2026 [continued]