Gospel of Peter

And they heard a voice out of the heavens saying, "Have you preached unto them that sleep?" The answer that was heard from the cross was, "Yes!"

The Gospel of Peter is an ancient book about Jesus, only partially known today.

Quotes

• While they were yet telling them the things which they had seen, they saw three men come out of the tomb, two of them sustaining the other one, and a cross following after them. The heads of the two they saw had heads that reached up to heaven, but the head of him that was led by them went beyond heaven. And they heard a voice out of the heavens saying, "Have you preached unto them that sleep?" The answer that was heard from the cross was, "Yes!"
  • Gospel of Peter 10:39–42 (trans. Sam Gibson)

• I, Simon Peter, and Andrew my brother, took our fishing nets and went to the sea.
  • Gospel of Peter 14:3 (trans. Sam Gibson)

Quotes about the Gospel of Peter

• The Gospel of Peter, which describes a talking cross, is late and incredible. In fact, the fragmentary document that we have may not be the Gospel of Peter at all. The document that we have may date to the fourth or fifth century.
  • Craig A. Evans, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006)

External links

• Works related to The Apocryphal New Testament (1924)/Passion Gospels/The Gospel of Peter on Wikisource, translation by M. R. James in the 1924 book The Apocryphal New Testament
• Early Christian Writings: Gospel of Peter: several translations and commentaries, and three Patristic references