Darrell,

The Gospel of Judas gives no indication that the writer was aware of the cross of Jesus or that Jesus' spirit left his body before death or suffering. The latter idea would imply that the the writer had no concept of real suffering which is clearly not the case with regard to his thoughts about 'priests'.

The writer believed that God via Michael gave spirits to people as a loan. Presumably the writer also believed that when a spirit left a body, the body was dead - no longer animated, something like traditional Jewish beliefs as in the case of so-called Essenes, and the authors of the DSS with their two spirits.

So is the Gospel telling us by default that the prophet 'Jesus' was not crucified?