It is the fourth tractate in Codex V in the Nag Hammadi library, immediately following the First Apocalypse of James.
[4][5] In the text, James serves as a Gnostic redeemer[1] who tries unsuccessfully to persuade the people to understand God before his martyrdom.
James claims to have received revelation from the Pleroma of Imperishability and says that he obeyed Jesus.
James warns about the false ruler, far from the aeons, who uses evil schemes, commits violence, and exercises unjust dominion.
James advises the crowd to renounce the difficult and variable way and walk in accordance with Jesus.
The people are not persuaded by James's speech and decide to stone him to death.
James stretches out his hands and prays to God to save him from this place of sojourn and sinful flesh.