Graphic Bible · Scene 1 of 6

An unnamed listener questions the Savior while Mary and the disciples listen.
Artwork is an interpretation of this text's portrayal. Text is quoted from the People's Open Bible Historical Library; direct source-language review remains pending. Illustrated literary dialogue; not an established historical event.

Historical Library · Other Early Christian Apocrypha
An Eternal Perspective

Provisional translation of the available English witness, not a summary. Images interpret the narrated conversations, Mary’s reported vision, and symbolic teachings; they do not establish historical events or reconstruct lost pages. Opening pages 1–6 and central pages 11–14 are missing.

Source and translation notes

Anonymous. Mary is a recipient and interpreter of revelation in the narrative, not its claimed author. Her identity is unspecified; this edition does not identify her as Mary Magdalene or another Mary.

Papyrus Berolinensis 8502,1, with Greek fragments · Coptic/Greek (source-language review pending)

English witness: Mark M. Mattison · Public Domain dedication stated on source page

Heading and section break are modern navigation aids, not ancient verse divisions. Numbered reading units are modern paragraph divisions, not ancient verse numbers.

  • Provisional bridge rendering from the supplied public-domain English witness.
  • Square brackets preserve manuscript damage or editorial restoration signals.

Gospel of Mary 1:1

The Surviving Question

An Eternal Perspective · Gospel of Mary 1

Story guide: The listening circle illustrates the surviving question; the missing opening is not reconstructed.

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1“Then will [matter] be [destroyed], or not?”

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