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The Church Fathers · c. 150–200
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
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What it is
The apostles reach an island city and meet a pearl merchant named Lithargoel whom the poor crowd around and the rich avoid. He turns out to be Christ, and sends them back to heal bodies as well as souls, and to judge no one by appearances.
Why it lasted
An apocryphal act with an unusually plain social message — the rich are turned away and the poor are given the pearl for nothing — and one of the few gnostic-adjacent texts to insist on healing the body.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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