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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Preface ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

iii

General Introduction to Apocryphal Acts ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

vii

I.

THE ACTS OF PAUL ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

i

A. The Acts of Paul and Thecla ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

8

B. Paul's correspondence with the Corinthians ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

35

C. The Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Paul ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

II.

THE ACTS OF PETER ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

50

1. The deed of Peter ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52

2. Peter's affair with Simon ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

57

Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Peter ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

106

III.

THE ACTS OF JOHN ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

123

1. Acts of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

126

2. Arrival at Ephesus and Work there ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

136

Lycomedes and Cleopatra ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

136

The picture of John ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

142

Healing of the old women ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

145

Destruction of the Artemis Temple ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

148

The Raising of the Priest ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

152

The Parricide ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

154

John and the Partridge ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

157

3. Return to Ephesus and Second Abode there ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

159

From Laodicea a second time to Ephesus ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

159

End and Raising up of Drusiana ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

161

4. Pertaining to the life of Jesus and His Death ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

175

5. The end of John ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

188

Appendix: John and the robber ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

196