1Peter accepts a large gift from a woman of bad reputation, saying she gives it as a debtor to Christ for his servants.
2Many sick people are healed in the name of Jesus Christ, and the church in Rome grows daily.
3Simon the magician, exposed by Peter, boasts that he will fly up to God; after his fall he is carried to Terracina and dies.
4Agrippa's four concubines, taught by Peter, refuse him, and he threatens them and Peter.
5Xanthippe and other wives withdraw from their husbands, and Albinus and Agrippa plot Peter's death.
6Warned of the plot, Peter leaves Rome, meets the Lord at the gate going to be crucified again, and returns.
7Peter comforts the brethren, is arrested and condemned by Agrippa, and at the place of execution begins his address on the mystery of the cross.
9Hanging head downward, Peter begins to explain the mystery of the first man's fall.
10Peter gives thanks to Christ with the silent voice of the spirit and dies; Marcellus embalms his body and is rebuked in a vision for his lavish care of the dead.
12Nero, angry that Peter died without his consent, is warned in a vision to leave Christ's servants alone.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
pseudonymous · Anonymous; part of the Acts of Peter, which Eusebius (Hist. eccl. 3.3.2) rejects as not among the books handed down. It is not part of the 66-book canon. The Greek Martyrdom is the end of the second-century Acts of Peter (ca. 180–200; confidence: approximate), whose earlier parts survive in the Latin Vercelli manuscript. The Greek text printed here begins in the middle of chapter 1 (the earlier part of that chapter is only in the Latin Actus Vercellenses).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
ca. 180–200 (approximate) · The Acts of Peter are generally dated to the late second century; the Greek Martyrdom survives in a single main manuscript (Patmos) and later copies.
Written at
unknown, Asia Minor or Rome (disputed) (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
chapter, following the edition's numbering; 0 = title. Chapter numerals the OCR could not read are not separate refs: their text lies inside the preceding ref.
SBL abbreviation
Mart. Pet.Not yet checked
Text from
Richard Adelbert Lipsius, ed., Martyrium Petri, in Acta apostolorum apocrypha, vol. 1 (Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1891), 78–105 (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR text layer of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))