The Parthian Manichean text of Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, M18+M2753, and The Influence of Johanne's Gospel on it

Manichaean scholars have frequently suggested that the faith is taken from the gnostic. Gnostics have chosen Johanne's gospel among canonical gospels because it contains many gnostic elements regarding the resurrection of Jesus Christ and crucifixion. Since Mani and Manicheans, as Al-Biruni has said, believed that the canonical gospels were apocryphal, they did not consider them as religious sources. The present article tries to show that Manicheans have used Johanne's gospel directly and indirectly for the gnostic elements in it; so the researcher has chosen one of the Parthian Manichean texts which is about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, ( the text edited by Enrico Murano) and then has compared it with Johanne's narration about crucifixion to show the gnostic elements of Parthian Manichean text