diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index 25efa002a36f..97986dea834d 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -674,8 +674,6 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         activemq_junit                              : "org.apache.activemq.tooling:activemq-junit:$activemq_version",
         activemq_kahadb_store                       : "org.apache.activemq:activemq-kahadb-store:$activemq_version",
         activemq_mqtt                               : "org.apache.activemq:activemq-mqtt:$activemq_version",
-        antlr                                       : "org.antlr:antlr4:4.7",
-        antlr_runtime                               : "org.antlr:antlr4-runtime:4.7",
         args4j                                      : "args4j:args4j:2.33",
         auto_value_annotations                      : "com.google.auto.value:auto-value-annotations:$autovalue_version",
         // TODO: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/34993 after stopping supporting Java 8
diff --git a/sdks/java/core/build.gradle b/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
index 57e47cef6502..6f22e1b771a9 100644
--- a/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/java/core/build.gradle
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
  */
 
 plugins { id 'org.apache.beam.module' }
+
+def antlr_version = "4.7"
+
 applyJavaNature(
   automaticModuleName: 'org.apache.beam.sdk',
   classesTriggerCheckerBugs: [
@@ -29,7 +32,8 @@ applyJavaNature(
     dependencies {
       include(dependency(library.java.commons_compress))
       include(dependency(library.java.commons_lang3))
-      include(dependency(library.java.antlr_runtime))
+      // Shade and repackage antlr runtime into Java core jar
+      include(dependency("org.antlr:antlr4-runtime:$antlr_version"))
     }
     relocate "com.google.thirdparty", getJavaRelocatedPath("com.google.thirdparty")
     relocate "org.apache.commons.compress", getJavaRelocatedPath("org.apache.commons.compress")
@@ -70,10 +74,11 @@ test {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-  antlr library.java.antlr
   // antlr is used to generate code from sdks/java/core/src/main/antlr/
-  permitUnusedDeclared library.java.antlr
-  permitUsedUndeclared library.java.antlr_runtime
+  antlr "org.antlr:antlr4:$antlr_version"
+  permitUnusedDeclared "org.antlr:antlr4:$antlr_version"
+  // alrady shaded and repackaged
+  permitUsedUndeclared "org.antlr:antlr4-runtime:$antlr_version"
   // Required to load constants from the model, e.g. max timestamp for global window
   shadow project(path: ":model:pipeline", configuration: "shadow")
   shadow project(path: ":model:fn-execution", configuration: "shadow")